Stay at home to be safe

To the La Conner and Swinomish area communities:

As your local Fire Chiefs we have been working closely together to ensure the safety of our first responders and citizens during this crisis. We would like to thank all of you for helping keep our first responders safe. Your commitment to staying at home, social distancing and minimizing travel has allowed the number of COVID-19 cases to stay relatively low. We know also that our local businesses have paid a huge price by having to sacrifice the Tulip season.

Unfortunately, we are still going on COVID-19 calls and we have had an asymptomatic case: There were no symptoms present to alert us to the fact that it was a COVID case. The next day we were alerted by Skagit EMS that the patient was a confirmed positive. Since we now deal with all patients as being possibly COVID-19 positive, we were wearing the right protection and did not experience an exposure.

What this means for you is that anyone you come in contact with outside your immediate stay at home group, whether they be symptomatic or asymptomatic. may be positive. We don’t want La Conner to become a hotspot: That will be bad for our health as well as our businesses.

Our hope is that by all of us staying the course we can soon start to return to a more normal, pre-COVID, existence.

Sincerely,

Fire Chiefs

Aaron Reinstra

Town of La Conner

Wood Weiss

Fire District 13