However, they still have cities and city services. I recently was informed of this one factoid; half of the Missoula City's fire fighters have either contracted COVID-19 or are in quarantine because of the disease and their proximity to an infected person. This would be 45 out of 90 staff. This is not unusual for other areas of the nation. When the disease first popped up in the United States in the city of Kirkland, that fire department had a third of its workforce either sick or in quarantine.
I was also thinking about wildfire season that is upon us. I would think that special planning has to be done to protect the many individuals and teams that assemble to fight wildfires. Coronavirus is complicating most of our emergency functions in 2020.
