{"id":434045,"date":"2026-10-21T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434045\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:20:10","slug":"st-lucie-county-fire-district-chief-terminated-in-board-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434045\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County Fire District Chief terminated in board vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792621209_421_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Malcolm Shields\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">There is a shakeup in the leadership of the St. Lucie County Fire District. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">On Wednesday, Oct. 21, St. Lucie County Fire District Chief Jeff Lee was terminated without cause by a four-to-three vote by the St. Lucie County Fire District Board.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Deputy Chief Paul Langel will serve as the district\u2019s interim fire chief.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/86ba1551-9a45-42fd-b7cd-01a47d6a2a24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County Fire District<\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County Fire District Chief Jeff Lee (pictured) was terminated without cause in a four to three vote by the fire district board, with Deputy Chief Paul Langel named interim chief.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/86ba1551-9a45-42fd-b7cd-01a47d6a2a24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Lee began his firefighter career with the St. Lucie County Fire District in 1997 after serving in the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 There is a shakeup in the leadership of the St. Lucie County Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,170134],"class_list":["post-434045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county-fire-chief-terminated-in-board-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434045","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=434045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}