which had previously threatened a no-confidence vote<\/a>, formally completed the process Friday by taking a no confidence vote in accordance with the group’s internal bylaws, according to a statement from union president Zac Shaffer.<\/p>\nSafety, response time issues cited<\/p>\n
“Chief Davis’ failure to correct violations of safety standards, recognize acceptable on-scene times for EMS and fire response, and ensure accurate dispatch of resources have led the membership to this result,” Shaffer said.<\/p>\n
The city of Fort Worth declined to comment on the association’s statement.\u00a0 Davis’ attorney, Stephen Kennedy, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Davis resigned amid investigation<\/p>\n
The city placed Davis on paid leave Sept. 22 without explanation, stating only that an investigation was underway. He resigned Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief Raymond Hill was named interim chief and will continue in that role while the city searches for Davis’ permanent replacement.<\/p>\n
Union supports current leadership<\/p>\n
“The 440 proudly serves our citizens, and we are grateful to work with the current fire administration,” Shaffer said.<\/p>\n
Davis was sworn in as Fort Worth’s fire chief in October 2018. He previously served in the Columbus Division of Fire in Ohio, where he oversaw training and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group representing Fort Worth firefighters has publicly shared its concerns about former Fire Chief Jim Davis, who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,10173,7372,8963,358,3187,15742,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-330460","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-north-texas","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-union","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330460","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=330460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}