{"id":12316,"date":"2014-06-10T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2014-06-10T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T12:00:10","slug":"county-mourns-loss-of-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=12316","title":{"rendered":"County mourns loss of Atkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_805349\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ChescoStorm-3-300x275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805349\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-805349\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"ChescoStorm-3\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ChescoStorm-3-300x275.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-805349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester County officials are mourning the death of Ed Atkins (right, pictured here with Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley in February), the County Director of the Department of Emergency Services, who died Monday<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County officials are mourning the death of\u00a0County Director of the Department of Emergency Services, Ed Atkins, who died Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins, a former Air Force officer, had led the office since 1997.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Ed Atkins,&#8221; Costello said in a statement. &#8220;Ed was a pioneer in guiding Chester County into a new era of 911 and emergency services.\u00a0 In the 17 years that he led the Department of Emergency Services, his passion helped to position public safety as one of the highest rated services available to our citizens.\u00a0 His determination and dedication to the development of the Public Safety Training Campus, the County\u2019s Strategic National Stockpile program, and the implementation of the new radio communication system earned our tremendous respect, as well as the respect of his staff, first responders, county work colleagues, and his emergency management colleagues in the region, the state and nationwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Ed\u2019s family during this time,&#8221; Costello said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Chester County officials are mourning the death of\u00a0County Director of the Department of Emergency Services, Ed Atkins, who died Monday. Atkins, a former Air Force officer, had led the office since 1997.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[15,1072,4747],"class_list":["post-12316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-chester-county","tag-ed-atkins","tag-office-of-emergency-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}