{"id":42714,"date":"2019-05-08T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42714"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:16:26","slug":"as-of-today-the-lehigh-acres-fire-commissioners-the-fire-chief-refuses-to-talk-to-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/05\/as-of-today-the-lehigh-acres-fire-commissioners-the-fire-chief-refuses-to-talk-to-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"As of today the Lehigh Acres Fire Commissioner&#8217;s &#038; the Fire Chief refuses to talk to the media&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They are all refusing on-camera interviews&#8230;.. so what are they hiding with this new fire fee assessment &#8230; that they want so badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robertd-Fire-Chief-LAFD-936x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robertd-Fire-Chief-LAFD.jpg 936w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robertd-Fire-Chief-LAFD-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robertd-Fire-Chief-LAFD-768x840.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><figcaption> Lehigh Acres Fire Chief Robert Dilallo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record only one Fire Commissioner actually will pay a fire fee assessment on their property taxes the other four Fire Commissioners are exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what are the Fire Commissioners and the Fire Chief hiding???\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The additional 10 million dollars that they&#8217;re going to make on the new Fire Assessment fee when it&#8217;s voted in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or is it the threat that Lee County made to Lehigh Acres fire board. That if they don&#8217;t fix their ambulance call times that Lee County would not renew their license to have the ambulances service and Lehigh Acres would lose the ambulance service period. But Lee County documents show that Lee County can&#8217;t meet the call times in Lehigh Acres either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, the fire board guaranteed the funds that they make on the ambulance fees to pay back the 8.9 million dollar loan they took out.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the threat of Lee County taking their ambulance services from Lehigh when Lehigh has pledged those fees to pay back the money from the loan REAL no it&#8217;s not REAL. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time to found out the REAL true before the voters cast their ballots on June 4th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Call the Fire Chief today demand the answers  239-303-5300 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are all refusing on-camera interviews&#8230;.. so what are they hiding with this new fire fee assessment &#8230; that they want so badly. For the record only one Fire Commissioner&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42714"}],"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=42714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}