{"id":567,"date":"2025-02-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:55","slug":"madera-firefighters-saved-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-firefighters-saved-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera firefighters saved lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"567\" class=\"elementor elementor-567\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-161a3616 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"161a3616\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7bab165e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7bab165e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As Maderans neared the end of the 1920s, they were full of optimism. Prospects of oil wells on the outskirts of town danced in the heads of some local capitalists, while others dreamed of raising the funds to build a brand new, four-story hotel on Yosemite Avenue. In the end, however, both schemes failed, and the town entered the 1930s rather tentatively as the nation\u2019s economy took a nosedive.<\/p><p>One of the first indications that the 1930s would not be Madera\u2019s most cherished decade was a fire that hit the downtown area at 6 o\u2019clock on Sunday morning, Sept. 27, 1931. The town was aroused by a woman who frantically ran to the window of the Alta Hotel on Yosemite Avenue, threw it open and yelled for all she was worth, and it\u2019s a good thing she did. Otherwise, she might have been burned alive. The woman in distress was Miss Nellie McSweeney, an instructor at Madera High School.<\/p><p>Fire Chief John Brammer was quick to reach the scene and was soon directing the fire-fighting efforts. He was the first to see the imperiled teacher. The Chief yelled for Joseph Cappelutti, who was on the roof, and the fire captain carefully made his way to McSweeney\u2019s window.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Maderans neared the end of the 1920s, they were full of optimism. Prospects of oil wells on the outskirts of town danced in the heads of some local capitalists, while others dreamed of raising the funds to build a brand new, four-story hotel on Yosemite Avenue. In the end, however, both schemes failed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,43],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-community","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}