So you're essentially a yes,

yes, and a yes.

Well, you know, that's the bit, right? Yeah.

The concern is that a volunteer fire independence leads to a lot more questions than answers.

Who's going to fund the volunteer fire departments? Who's in charge of who? How are we going to come up with a unified command system? And really, like John was saying, know who's who and get down to the brass tacks of providing a service to the community.

Currently, the Butte citizens are underserved by the lack of staffing.

There was a third party study that came in and said that the career stations were simply not staffed well enough to meet the expanding call volume.

Also, there any anything that you guys feel like you need to get out there? I mean, what's the biggest looming arguments against it? And what is the biggest misconceptions?