{"id":39473,"date":"2025-01-28T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=39473"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:04:25","slug":"flags-to-fly-at-half-mast-for-lost-thomasville-fireman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/flags-to-fly-at-half-mast-for-lost-thomasville-fireman-20250128","title":{"rendered":"Flags To Fly At Half Mast For Fallen Thomasville Fireman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feedly.com\/i\/entry\/ZCzp\/GlclM36cXbtE6kj4ltet8HyLYQDMB+pbyBNatc=_194a8a69c02:4115c02:d4d0980a\">Yesterday<\/a>, January 27, 2025,, Governor Mike Kehoe ordered U.S. and Missouri flags be flown at half-staff at government buildings in Oregon County, the Fire Fighters Memorial of Missouri in Kingdom City, and firehouses statewide on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from sunrise to sunset in honor of Thomasville Volunteer Fire Department Firefighter William \u201cBill\u201d Nix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his retirement, Bill Nix answered a calling to serve Oregon County by becoming a volunteer firefighter,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Governor Mike Kehoe<\/strong>\u00a0said. \u201cA retired trucker, Bill could handle the Thomasville Volunteer Fire Department\u2019s large tanker. He also expertly maintained the department\u2019s other trucks, earning the 2022 Thomasville Volunteer Firefighter of the Year award for his dedicated service. Firefighter Nix&#8217;s commitment to helping others and his devotion to supporting his community serve as inspiration to all of us to give back. Claudia and I send our heart-felt prayers and condolences to the Nix family and the entire Thomasville Volunteer Fire Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of January 16, Firefighter Nix was responding to a structure fire as a passenger in a Thomasville Volunteer Fire Department fire engine when the vehicle overturned on U.S. Highway 160 four miles south of Thomasville, causing Nix\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The flags will be held at half-staff on the day of Nix\u2019s memorial services. To view the Governor\u2019s proclamation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/links-1.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:*2F*2Fgovernor.mo.gov*2Fproclamations*2Fgovernor-kehoe-orders-flags-fly-half-staff-honor-thomasville-volunteer-fire\/1\/01000194a87ea6ef-d42e4178-a7b1-4045-8839-acc2148ef796-000000\/nzPfSzdBNg1cjZaJHdr4cD7GHAnjhKCJIlEvJSg0qPQ=389__;JSUlJQ!!EErPFA7f--AJOw!AvwK1RZ2dpRi1Fl-Cu9-MF1qZoZH_MtUphytl0dUIoPSWbGNvtZbL8OLShfTrp13ITa13SNbaybzhtBWf6K8hVdgUcVCkendjOeeaf8q6ooPVmE$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kehoe ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at half-staff at government buildings in Oregon County, and firehouses statewide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[243,229,208,201,264,205,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39479,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions\/39479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}