{"id":1319798,"date":"2020-05-06T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=996140"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:04:19","slug":"responding-to-the-pandemic-glenwoods-first-responders-continue-to-protect-and-serve-despite-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/responding-to-the-pandemic-glenwoods-first-responders-continue-to-protect-and-serve-despite-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to the pandemic: Glenwood\u2019s first responders continue to protect and serve despite budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenwood Springs Police Officer Evan Wagstrom gets information from dispatch concerning a welfare check.<\/strong>
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While working from home has sufficed for some during the COVID-19 crisis, for Glenwood\u2019s first responders, such a luxury was never an option.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the city announced that all 179 of its full-time employees would be furloughed one day, every other week or have their pay reduced by 10%.<\/p>\n

According to Glenwood Springs Fire Chief Gary Tillotson, the fire department had been able to maintain necessary staffing levels despite citywide budget cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re able to schedule it out to where it\u2019s only one person, per day, that we\u2019re down,\u201d Tillotson said. \u201cAnecdotally, less people doing less recreational things has definitely caused a downturn in overall call volume up to this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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