{"id":449347,"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449347\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:00:15","slug":"chat-with-the-chief-clovis-fire-chief-jason-ralls-discusses-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449347\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat with the Chief: Clovis Fire Chief Jason Ralls discusses new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 31, 2026 10:25PM<\/p>\n<p>The Clovis Fire Department recently welcomed a new leader who was first hired with the agency in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Clovis Fire Department recently welcomed a new leader who was first hired with the agency in 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chief Jason Ralls was confirmed by the city council in June to replace Chris Ekk, who retired July 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In his 30 years with the department, he&#8217;s held every rank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Ralls joined us to discuss the future of the department and what this new role means to him.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 31, 2026 10:25PM The Clovis Fire Department recently welcomed a new leader who was first hired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[177804,112,114,113,167565],"class_list":["post-449347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-177804","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-no-badge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}