Lillie Davidson<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n
(TNS)<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth City Council\u00a0on Tuesday appointed a 28-year veteran of the city\u2019s fire department to serve as its interim chief beginning in September, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
Assistant Fire Chief\u00a0James Horton\u00a0will assume the role\u00a0Sep. 1\u00a0when the current\u00a0interim fire chief,\u00a0Raymond Hill,<\/a>\u00a0retires, according to the statement. Horton previously served as deputy fire chief from 2022 through September of last year.<\/p>\n Hill took over for previous fire chief\u00a0Jim Davis\u00a0last fall after Davis resigned while on administrative leave, the\u00a0Star-Telegram\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n The city plans to conduct a nationwide search for its next permanent fire chief, according to the statement.<\/p>\n \u201cChief Horton is a trusted leader who brings a depth of knowledge and decades of valued experience to this interim role,\u201d assistant city manager\u00a0William Johnson\u00a0said. \u201cHis extensive background will provide strong leadership for the department during this transition.\u201d<\/p>\n Over his time as a department leader, Horton served on the committee that oversaw the integration of the city\u2019s emergency medical services provider\u00a0MedStar\u00a0into the fire department. He also served on a staffing committee that saw the department add 70 new sworn firefighters, city officials said.<\/p>\n Horton earned a Ph.D. in urban and public administration from the\u00a0University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit\u00a0star-telegram.com<\/a>. Distributed by\u00a0Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lillie Davidson Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS) The Fort Worth City Council\u00a0on Tuesday appointed a 28-year veteran of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-418374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418374","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=418374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}