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Firing the Fire Board – Part Deux

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Michael Carter
Feb 13, 2024
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Fanning the Flames

This is part II, an update if you will, of my last essay concerning the abrupt and unusual termination of a local fire chief with nearly 40 years of exemplary volunteer service in a very rural district here in the Pacific Northwest. If you haven’t read the first essay, I humbly suggest you start there before reading on:

Firing The Fire Board

Michael Carter
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January 31, 2024
Firing The Fire Board

This is an essay about the termination of a local fire chief with nearly 40 years of exemplary volunteer service, and how it appears to mirror the larger, significantly global symptoms of growing ineptitude and irresponsibility in ‘representative’ government.

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