Medical Lake, County Fire District 3 consider merger
Lack of call response a growing issue for the Medical Lake Fire Department
Last updated 1/17/2019 at 4:55pm
The city of Medical Lake and Spokane County Fire District 3 are discussing a merger due to an increasing number of no-response calls by the city's all-volunteer fire department.
The Medical Lake Fire Department failed to respond to over one-quarter of the calls they received in 2018, according to a city report. SCFD3 picked up the slack under joint support agreements between the two entities.
To blame for response is a lack of staff availability from the all-volunteer fire department, according to Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield.
Medical Lake received a total of 642 calls for servi...
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