{"id":416980,"date":"2026-08-26T06:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:44:18","slug":"fort-worth-city-council-names-interim-fire-chief-hell-start-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416980\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth City Council names interim fire chief. He\u2019ll start in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday appointed a 28-year veteran of the city&#8217;s fire department to serve as its interim chief beginning in September, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Assistant Fire Chief James Horton will assume the role Sep. 1 when the current<a data-ylk=\"slk:interim fire chief, Raymond Hill,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article316793381.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> interim fire chief, Raymond Hill,<\/a> retires, according to the statement. Horton previously served as deputy fire chief from 2022 through September of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hill took over for previous fire chief Jim Davis last fall after Davis resigned while on administrative leave, the Star-Telegram reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city plans to conduct a nationwide search for its next permanent fire chief, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Chief Horton is a trusted leader who brings a depth of knowledge and decades of valued experience to this interim role,&#8221; assistant city manager William Johnson said. &#8220;His extensive background will provide strong leadership for the department during this transition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over his time as a department leader, Horton served on the committee that oversaw the integration of the city&#8217;s emergency medical services provider MedStar into the fire department. He also served on a staffing committee that saw the department add 70 new sworn firefighters, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Horton earned a Ph.D. in urban and public administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday appointed a 28-year veteran of the city&#8217;s fire department to serve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[145303,9992,125,116,118,117,145302,145301,4098,16159],"class_list":["post-416980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-chief-horton","tag-fire-chief","tag-fire-department","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-interim-chief","tag-james-horton","tag-jim-davis","tag-raymond-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}