{"id":29656,"date":"2026-03-19T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29656"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:55:12","slug":"sen-ossoff-strengthening-public-safety-in-valdosta","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-strengthening-public-safety-in-valdosta\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Strengthening Public Safety in Valdosta\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Valdosta, Ga.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to\u00a0build a new firefighter training center\u00a0in Valdosta.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to\u00a0help the City of Valdosta\u00a0purchase\u00a0a\u00a0burn building with an attached 4-story training tower.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local officials, the\u00a0facility will provide firefighters with live fire\u00a0training\u00a0opportunities as well as multi-story structure features, giving\u00a0firefighters the\u00a0ability to\u00a0simulate multi-story structures they\u00a0encounter\u00a0in local responses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is delivering $845,000\u00a0for the project through bipartisan government funding legislation that became law on February 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to announce that\u00a0I included funds in\u00a0the Federal budget for 2026 to help build a new training facility for the Valdosta Fire Department,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cFirefighters are real heroes in our communities, and I want Valdosta firefighters to be able to train on the very best.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny time we call on Senator Ossoff he delivers,\u201d<strong>\u00a0said Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe City of Valdosta is thankful to receive these new resources to help ensure our firefighters are well-trained and best equipped to respond to emergencies\u00a0in Valdosta and across the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valdosta, Ga.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to\u00a0build a new firefighter training center\u00a0in Valdosta.\u00a0 Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to\u00a0help the City of Valdosta\u00a0purchase\u00a0a\u00a0burn building with an attached 4-story training tower.\u00a0\u00a0 According to local officials, the\u00a0facility will provide firefighters with live fire\u00a0training\u00a0opportunities as well as multi-story structure features, giving\u00a0firefighters the\u00a0ability to\u00a0simulate multi-story structures [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29656","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29658,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29656\/revisions\/29658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}