{"id":20328,"date":"2015-05-16T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20328"},"modified":"2015-05-16T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:08:22","slug":"hog-and-lamb-bbq-helps-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/hog-and-lamb-bbq-helps-firefighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hog and Lamb BBQ Helps Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/piglam.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>NOTE: This billboard photo is old and the current info is slightly different!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my Southern California town\u00a0the top 40 salary earners in our city government work for fire and police, earning no less than $265,000\/year in pay and compensation\u00a0(only the city manager and city attorney are among their ranks in earnings.) \u00a0The fire captains average around $350,000\/year and one firefighter paramedic makes just under $300,000. See what your city officials are earning (http:\/\/transparentcalifornia.com\/). \u00a0While their services are valuable, their pay is in stark contrast to the North Coast firefighters \/ volunteers who help protect the stunning redwood forests with over 20 volunteer fire departments. The public can help support their efforts\u00a0through donations and fundraisers such as the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/point-arena-hog-lamb-bbq.html\">Redwood Coast Fire Protection District\u00a0Hog\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Lamb Bar B Q<\/a> on May 24, 2015 at the Manchester Fire Station. \u00a0The food is delicious and well worth\u00a0$25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: This billboard photo is old and the current info is slightly different!\u00a0 In my Southern California town\u00a0the top 40 salary earners in our city government work for fire and police, earning no less than $265,000\/year in pay and compensation\u00a0(only the city manager and city attorney are among their ranks in earnings.) \u00a0The fire captains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}