{"id":53666,"date":"2022-06-17T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T22:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53666"},"modified":"2022-06-17T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T22:27:42","slug":"did-katie-heck-lehigh-acres-fire-public-relations-officer-lie-to-the-residents-of-wheeler-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/did-katie-heck-lehigh-acres-fire-public-relations-officer-lie-to-the-residents-of-wheeler-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Katie Heck Lehigh Acres Fire Public Relations Officer lie to the residents of Wheeler Rd?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418-1024x609.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418-1536x913.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_1418.jpg 1659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Katie-Heck-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45518\" width=\"220\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Katie-Heck-1.png 470w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Katie-Heck-1-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption> Katie Heck<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District per Heck\u2019s statement \u201cdoes not have an agreement with Hendry County to provide first-dispatched fire and\/or rescue services (this includes Wheeler Road Estates.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is NOT totally correct, Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District has an interlocal agreement with Hendry County to provide <strong>AUTOMATIC AID<\/strong> to East Lehigh\/Wheeler Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the agreement it reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LaBelle dispatchers are <strong>automatically<\/strong> calling Lee Control and <strong>requesting mutual aid<\/strong> from the Lehigh Acres Fire Department for <strong>ALL<\/strong> fire and medical type calls in the area known as East Lehigh \/ Wheeler Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial comment:<\/strong> Meaning of automatic &#8212; done or occurring spontaneously<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement also states, \u201cWhereas, the use of mutual aid may result in a reduction of incurred fire losses and fire insurance rates and an increased medical \/ rescue response support network, for the citizens of Hendry County,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the interlocal agreement below:<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District per Heck\u2019s statement \u201cdoes not have an agreement with Hendry County to provide first-dispatched fire and\/or rescue services (this includes Wheeler Road Estates.)\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666"}],"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=53666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53669,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666\/revisions\/53669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}