{"id":285270,"date":"2026-05-26T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:51:07","slug":"former-cape-coral-fire-chief-passes-away-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285270\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cape Coral Fire Chief passes away | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=cape+coral+fire+department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral Fire Department<\/a> has announced the passing of retired Fire Chief Donald Cochran.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fire department formally announced Cochran\u2019s passing through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYz9t_ymvfp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media accounts<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the social media posting, the fire department reflected on Cochran\u2019s career as fire chief, starting with his initial appointment in 1990. He was appointed chief in 2014, making Cochran the first Cape Coral firefighter to rise through the ranks to lead the department, according to the social media post.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cochran then retired in 2018 after 28 years of service to the fire department and the Cape Coral community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The post concluded with condolences to Chief Cochran\u2019s family, friends, and all those who had the privilege of serving alongside him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It remains unclear how Cochran passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Cape Coral Fire Department has announced the passing of retired Fire Chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-285270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285270","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=285270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}