{"id":196946,"date":"2026-03-18T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:35:10","slug":"ex-florida-keys-firefighter-accused-of-stealing-fentanyl-from-ambulance-sheriff-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196946\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Florida Keys firefighter accused of stealing fentanyl from ambulance, sheriff says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Florida Keys firefighter was arrested for allegedly stealing fentanyl from an ambulance and falsifying public records, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Keith Burt, 45, was arrested Wednesday and faces charges of grand theft of a controlled substance and fraud, Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Burt, of Key Largo, had been employed with Islamorada Fire Rescue as a firefighter\/paramedic, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, officials with the fire department notified the sheriff&#8217;s office that Burt had obtained a partially used vial of fentanyl from an ambulance after a medical call, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>He also is accused of forging another paramedic\u2019s signature in documents related to the disposal of the drug, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Other crew members noticed discrepancies in the documentation related to the drug&#8217;s use after the call and warrants were issued for Burt&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into jail on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Florida Keys firefighter was arrested for allegedly stealing fentanyl from an ambulance and falsifying public records,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,2472,29,5696],"class_list":["post-196946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-monroe-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}