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Local emergency responder urges striking volunteer-firefighter references from charter
6443071 · October 21, 2025
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Summary
A longtime firefighter and emergency responder asked the study commission to remove all references to volunteer firefighters from the Butte-Silver Bow charter, citing professional qualifications and concerns about how volunteers are treated.
Karen Sargent of Josephine Street told the study commission on Oct. 28 that she is a nationally certified, professionally trained firefighter with three decades of emergency-response experience and urged the commission to "strike every reference…
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