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Fire marshal highlights K‑9 accelerant work and urges fee review as fund balances decline
Summary
Fire Prevention & Electrical Safety told appropriators the agency will update training gear; the governor recommended a reduced package but funded the accelerant‑detection K‑9 program. Director Byron Matthews described Kyoto's deployments and urged review of fee schedules amid declining fund balances and code‑exemption requests.
Byron Matthews, director of Fire Prevention & Electrical Safety, told the Joint Appropriations Committee that his Riverton training unit needs updated turnout gear, radios and nozzles, and that the agency submitted a $254,000 exception request that the executive branch largely did not recommend, instead recommending $14,000 for the agency’s accelerant-detection canine and related investigative costs.
Matthews described the K‑9…
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