{"id":47459,"date":"2021-01-15T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47459"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:37:52","slug":"was-the-death-of-the-15-old-hindered-by-the-slow-response-time-of-the-lehigh-acres-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/01\/was-the-death-of-the-15-old-hindered-by-the-slow-response-time-of-the-lehigh-acres-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the death of the 15 old hindered by the slow response time of the Lehigh Acres Fire Department?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Dec 11, 2020 it took 27 minutes for an ambulance to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two 15-year-old boys were hit by a black Tesla near the intersection of Elaine Avenue N and 42nd Street W at 10:18pm, according to Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teens were rushed to the hospital. One teen was unconscious and later died at Lee Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why wasn\u2019t a Lee Flight call in, it took 45 mins to get them to the hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The taxpayers voted for improvement in the Fire Department in Aug 18, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Eric Engelhart, who lives on North Sunshine Blvd has Zero Tolerance of this public safety issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But yesterday 1\/14\/2021 the department finally breaks ground on station 6 on Sunshine. But the station will not be ready for 8 to 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6-1536x753.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Station-6.jpg 1888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ground breaking Station 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire department has had a mobile home for a temp station for that location but has refused to talk about until 1\/13\/2021 by email. According to Fire Chief Robert Diallo, \u201cWe will be placing a temporary trailer on the site and expect it to be operational in March while the main station is completed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They could have placed the temporary trailer on the site over 18 months ago but refused and now we have a fifteen-year-old DEAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engelhart said that the Fire Chief should be held accountable for the slow pace of the improvements and the total lack of public safety when it came to the fifteen-year-old death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 11, 2020 it took 27 minutes for an ambulance to respond. Two 15-year-old boys were hit by a black Tesla near the intersection of Elaine Avenue N and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47460,"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\/47459"}],"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=47459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}