{"id":39963,"date":"2025-11-09T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39963\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:21:23","slug":"south-trail-fire-chief-on-administrative-leave-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39963\/","title":{"rendered":"South Trail Fire chief on administrative leave | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District is investigating Fire Chief Gene Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>WINK News confirmed with the district that Chief Rogers is currently on administrative leave while the district conducts an internal investigation. It is unclear whether the leave is paid.<\/p>\n<p>The South Trail Board of Fire Commissioners is scheduled to hold a special meeting on Nov. 12 at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A previous version of this story incorrectly attributed information about the nature of the investigation to the district\u2019s PIO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District has not\u00a0confirmed the reason for the internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>WINK News is working to learn that information.<\/p>\n<p>(Correction Note: \u00a0This story has been updated to correct previously misstated information regarding the nature and source of details about the investigation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District is investigating Fire Chief Gene Rogers. WINK News confirmed with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-39963","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963","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=39963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}