{"id":227715,"date":"2026-04-11T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:20:08","slug":"oakland-park-mourns-loss-of-veteran-fire-rescue-battalion-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227715\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Park mourns loss of veteran fire rescue battalion chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52NS2MAYWNFK3HP4B4D4DMBYOE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Kevin Fornash. (Oakland Park Fire Rescue) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla.  \u2014 The city of Oakland Park is mourning the loss of Battalion Chief Kevin Michael Fornash, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/de-luto-oakland-park-por-muerte-de-jefe-veterano-de-batallon-de-bomberos\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/de-luto-oakland-park-por-muerte-de-jefe-veterano-de-batallon-de-bomberos\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fornash, a 28-year veteran of Oakland Park Fire Rescue, was known for his dedication and service to the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">City officials confirmed that Fornash, 59, died Thursday after a \u201ccourageous\u201d battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Details about his memorial service will be announced once arrangements are finalized.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandKevin Fornash. (Oakland Park Fire Rescue) OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 The city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-227715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227715","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=227715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}