{"id":36767,"date":"2015-08-27T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T01:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=36767"},"modified":"2015-08-30T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:17:38","slug":"editorial-108-promised-only-86-delivered-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/08\/editorial-108-promised-only-86-delivered-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: 108 Promised Only<br> 86 Delivered, Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30614\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30614\" title=\"Chief Wayne\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chief-Wayne.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief John R. Wayne Lehigh Acres Fire Dept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fire Chief John Wayne promised the people of Lehigh Acres 108 firefighters to staff all the fire equipment during the election last year. And at that time we had 108 firefighters. But now we have 86, why?<\/p>\n<p>Do the voters in Lehigh Acres really know the REAL FACTS; Chief Wayne has browned-out a fire engine since the beginning of the year. This engine at station 105 has been used less than 15 times since January 1, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Wayne\u2019s power point presentation he used at numerous meeting and civic functions shows that the department has 108 firefighters <a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fire-Fee-Assessment-Presentation.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>108 firefighters are what the people voted on last November 2015. But currently the firefighter staff has dropped to 86 but the admin staff has increased by two.\u00a0Why?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I encouraged all the voters to call the Fire District at\u00a0239-303-5300\u00a0to make an appointment to speak with Fire Chief\u00a0Wayne and see and hear his twisted tales and lies.<\/p>\n<p>Someone please ask him them he is going the hire 22 new firefighters and stop lying to the people of Lehigh Acres?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>: The views\u00a0expressed by Robert Anderson do not necessarily reflect those held by the staff of the\u00a0Lehigh Acres Gazette.\u00a0The\u00a0Gazette\u00a0provides a venue for people to express their opinions concerning any subject matter and presents this as \u201copinion,\u201d\u00a0not news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial Fire Chief John Wayne promised the people of Lehigh Acres 108 firefighters to staff all the fire equipment during the election last year. And at that time we had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767"}],"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=36767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}