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Montana woman's life course altered by COVID as state marks year of pandemic


Being a female firefighter is not necessarily easy, but Lea Bossler was blazing her career path.
“You have to work really hard to make it a livelihood that s not just seasonal employment here and there,” Bossler said in a recent interview. “I’d gotten to that point, pretty much.”
Lea Bossler carries a chainsaw in a wildland fire.
Photo Courtesy of Lea Bossler
Advancing toward being an incident commander type 5, which means a position doing fire management, Bossler was also in line to be put into a crew boss class and start helicopter training. Those are all certificates that open the door to better jobs and a career in fire, rather than being a seasonal tool swinger. ....

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Montana's pandemic year: The storm that would not be denied


Editor s Note
This story was compiled almost completely from the reporting of Lee Montana newspapers’ staff over the past nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It started the way most Montana storms do, signs of trouble coming on the west wind.
On Leap Day, Saturday, Feb. 29, Washington state reported the country’s first COVID-19 death, the first healthcare worker infected, and the first known outbreak in a care facility.
By early March, a few Montanans began to worry. Many others paid scant attention to the gathering storm.
Indeed, some battle lines were already being drawn.
Four Western Montana Republican legislators attended the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where a New Jersey doctor who had paid big money to attend VIP events, snapping selfies with big-name attendees including Ted Cruz, tested positive for the virus. ....

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