{"id":207548,"date":"2026-06-01T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:25:10","slug":"pittsburgh-bureau-of-fire-chief-darryl-jones-placed-on-administrative-leave-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207548\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Chief Darryl Jones placed on administrative leave, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Chief Darryl Jones has been placed on administrative leave, sources tell 11 Investigates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">11 Investigates has learned that Jones has been placed on leave while there is an internal investigation into the operations of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Jones has been the fire chief since September 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Assistant Chief Mat Davis has been named the Acting Chief. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This is a breaking story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Chief Darryl Jones has been placed on administrative leave, sources tell 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2636,91173,10873,73431,869,10872,91171,422,91172,2637,2634,15338,11179,2635,73,75,74,2639,2638,295,420],"class_list":["post-207548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-11-investigates","tag-aliquippa_fire_department","tag-alyssa","tag-bureau_of_fire","tag-channel_11","tag-chief_investigator","tag-darryl_jones","tag-fire","tag-fire_chief","tag-investigate","tag-investigates","tag-jones","tag-melissa_raymond","tag-ott_investigates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rick","tag-rick_earl","tag-top-stories","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}