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John Leibel

Oct 19, 2026

2:29
What's going wrong with the system right now? Why are we looking at these change-ups and why do you want to essentially, hopefully, improve it?
2:37
Yeah, I can talk about that one.
2:39
What's going wrong with the system right now? Like Austin said, we have so many chiefs, so many trustees trying to make decisions.
2:49
It just gets convoluted.
2:50
We have...
2:51
At times we'll pull up on a fire scene and we'll have volunteers that maybe aren't physically capable or haven't had the training to go inside of a fire with us.
3:01
Then we have no way of knowing which one of those individuals they are.

6 MINS LATER

8:45
They concurred that the volunteers would not be entitled to that county funding any longer and would be on their own, which is scary, frankly, because that means that they got to figure out how to do it all with the added stress of keeping the lights on and the doors open.

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