{"id":8865,"date":"2025-10-17T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:08:09","slug":"orlando-fire-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8865\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando fire chief resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chief of the Orlando Fire Department is stepping down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In his resignation letter, Chief Charlie Salazar says his last day will be Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Salazar says he\u2019s leaving for personal reasons and will return to Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His departure follows the Orlando Fire Department\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/orlando-fire-department-accreditation-revoked\/SQVXKZAM4RESJHBXRNJL33G66M\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:loss of its accreditation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">loss of its accreditation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief of the Orlando Fire Department is stepping down. In his resignation letter, Chief Charlie Salazar says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8953,139,4020,141,140,8954,8955],"class_list":["post-8865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-chief-charlie-salazar","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-fire-department","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-personal-reasons","tag-resignation-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865","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=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}