A scroll through Tim Montana’s social media most days will feature video clips of the scraggly-bearded musician’s guitar jams and photos of the Wise River watering hole-meets-concert venue he purchased two years ago.

But last week he took to his Facebook page with a different message: Montana’s ambulance system is broken, and something must be done about it.

In a 2 ½-minute video, he gave a harrowing account of trying to access life-saving medical care for a friend whose child had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Montana said the victim was rushed from the Big Hole Valley to the Community Hospital of Anaconda, where the patient was stabilized but in dire need of more specialized medical care that the facility couldn’t provide.

The hospital was unable to secure an ambulance, and, h

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