Putnam County adds brand-new firefighters

James “Jay” Barbee is not a big man. But at just 19 years old, he has taken on a big job as one of Putnam County’s newest firefighters upon graduating a few weeks ago from the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) in Forsyth. “Training was very fun, but it was very different than what I thought it was going to be, more physically demanding than what I was expecting. I mean, I was…