Seeley Lake Fire Department welcomes a new volunteer, board discusses response times

The Seeley Lake Fire Department is adding two new volunteers to its ranks and the addition of another paramedic makes it so the department is fully staffed with paramedics during the day at least five days each week.

At February's Seeley Lake Fire Board meeting, Fire Chief Dave Lane said over the past couple of months there have not been any responses to filling open volunteer positions. But now the department has received two - one for a firefighting position and one for a chaplain. Michael Bowman, the firefighting volunteer, started at the Seeley Lake Fire District mid-February.

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