{"id":34080,"date":"2014-12-14T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2014-12-14T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T04:19:48","slug":"fire-chief-wants-board-to-approve-1-million-dollar-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/fire-chief-wants-board-to-approve-1-million-dollar-expenditure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Chief Wants Board to<br> Approve 1 Million Dollar Expenditure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34081\" title=\"Cash-Stacks\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Cash-Stacks-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Cash-Stacks-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Cash-Stacks.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to the Fire Board agenda for the upcoming meeting on December 16, 2014, Chief John Chief wants the fire board to spend one million of your tax dollars on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>four new<\/strong><\/span> Type 1 ALS ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the fire department owns and operates six ALS ambulances but refuses to put no more than four on duty at any given time and sighting lack of personnel and other resources as the main issues.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lehigh Acres Gazette has been told the chief is planning for up to 46 firefighters to be layoff on April 1, 2015. Is it more important to keep firefighters on the job or to buy new equipment when you told everyone the department is broke, chief?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Fire Board agenda for the upcoming meeting on December 16, 2014, Chief John Chief wants the fire board to spend one million of your tax dollars on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}