BARTLETT — The ultimate display of teamwork took place recently after the Bartlett and Jackson fire departments learned their communications tower atop the former Tyrol Ski Area on Thorne Mountain in Jackson was unable to transmit. In arguably the coldest weather to hit the region in more than a decade, the system went down Feb 3-5.
This forced fire and rescue personnel to manually dispatch around the clock out of the Bartlett Fire Station in Glen.
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