{"id":256032,"date":"2025-09-26T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:56:22","slug":"fort-worth-fire-chief-jim-davis-placed-on-leave-interim-chief-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256032\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis placed on leave; interim chief appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis placed on leave <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac6444ce7e21f0139732d51d83485240.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/video\/fort-worth-fire-chief-jim-davis-placed-on-leave\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis placed on leave<\/p>\n<p>          00:30<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Fire Chief has been placed on leave, officials said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Fort Worth said Jim Davis is on paid administrative leave. The decision to place the chief on leave came from Assistant City Manager William Johnson on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city said that Assistant Chief Raymond Hill will serve as the interim chief for the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>The city said it cannot comment on why Davis was placed on leave and that a resolution to his status should come in the next few weeks. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Professional Firefighters Association said it had no comment on the decision Tuesday evening, but expected to release a statement on Wednesday.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davis was sworn in on Oct. 16, 2018. He replaced Rudy Jackson, who retired after more than 10 years in the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis placed on leave Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis placed on leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,10173,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-256032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-fire-department","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115270476474212073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}