Several communities grapple with paying for firefighter salaries and equipment

Typically, when you see this many firefighters, all in one place, they’re battling smoke and flames. But on a sunny afternoon in Clarksville, dozens of firefighters and their supporters wore red t-shirts and flooded the local union office. These men and women are responding to a different kind of fight.

“Nothing happens overnight, and we know this,” said Seth Bonecutter, a local firefighter and the Vice President of the Clarksville Fire Fighter Association.

“I’m an engineer, I’m promoted, but I don’t make much more than the starting pay,” said Owen James, an engineer with the CFD…

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