{"id":370,"date":"2026-03-08T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=370"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:00:08","slug":"fundraiser-held-for-pearisburg-firefighter-battling-double-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser held for Pearisburg firefighter battling double cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-document-id=\"cms\/api\/amp\/video\/AA1XLZlv\" data-reference=\"video\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">PEARISBURG, Va. (WFXR) \u2014 Timmy Ratcliffe has been looking out for his Giles County neighbors for more than three decades as a Pearisburg volunteer firefighter and even longer as a kind neighbor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ratcliffe is battling both prostate and stage four bone cancer, and now it\u2019s the community\u2019s turn to look out for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThis has been very overwhelming to him,\u201d said Ratcliffe\u2019s daughter, Miranda Jensen. \u201cHim and my stepmom, they\u2019re humble people. They don\u2019t ask for anything. They\u2019re normally the ones that help people. This has been amazing for them to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jensen worked with neighbors and friends to pull together a fundraising event for her father on Saturday at Angles Rest Baptist Fellowship, selling baked goods and hot dogs and auctioning off products donated by local businesses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\" style=\"text-align: justify\">    Town of Pearisburg coming together to support a local firefighter fighting cancer  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The five-hour event began at 11 a.m., but had already drawn a crowd of people anxious to help out by 10:45.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhen something bad happens to someone here, everyone comes together and helps out,\u201d said Jensen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In keeping with Ratcliffe\u2019s own serving spirit, the fundraiser still found a way to give back. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The event partnered with the Blood Connection, which donated $10 to the family for every blood donation given on-site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In total, the community raised $10,400 for Ratcliffe and his family.<\/p>\n<p> <i style=\"text-align: justify\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">      For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFXRtv.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEARISBURG, Va. (WFXR) \u2014 Timmy Ratcliffe has been looking out for his Giles County neighbors for more than three decades as a Pearisburg volunteer firefighter and even longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}