{"id":1465998,"date":"2025-12-19T03:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1465998"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:19:41","slug":"ben-wheeler-fire-department-confirms-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1465998","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wheeler Fire Department confirms stability"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"BEN WHEELER \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, several firefighters, along with the fire chief of the Ben Wheeler Fire Department, have resigned from their positions recently. Following the resignations, the department\u2019s Board of Directors released a statement on Thursday, stating that they are aware of the issues that led to the resignations, but they will not disclose them. The board also noted that the false claims being spread are inaccurate and have only caused drama and defamation to those who still serve the community.<\/p>\n

The Board of Directors also addressed any financial concerns residents might have had, stating that the department is financially solvent with \u201cmore than satisfactory funds on hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new fire chief will be elected in January during the regularly scheduled elections, the board stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEN WHEELER \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, several firefighters, along with the fire chief of the Ben Wheeler Fire Department, have resigned from their positions recently. Following the resignations, the department\u2019s Board of Directors released a statement on Thursday, stating that they are aware of the issues that led to the resignations, but … Continue reading Ben Wheeler Fire Department confirms stability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1466266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-19_030113-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 09:26:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/2025-12-19_030113-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465998"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466351,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465998\/revisions\/1466351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}