Ambulance dispute disheartening

Since the late nineteen sixties the City of Stanwood, Camano Island Fire and Fire District 14 have signed contracts at regular intervals with Stanwood Ambulance to provide ambulance services. Now with the city's desire to get out of the fire business and the two fire districts vying for control of the ambulance along with the blatant refusal by the City of Stanwood, Fire District 14 and Camano Island Fire and Rescue to fulfill their contractual obligation with Stanwood Ambulance and it's employees one would have to assume that this contract had been drawn up in the sand as well as concluding that there is a severe lack of character in the leadership of the two Fire Districts and the City of Stanwood.

Integrity, honor and trust have been the pillars that the fire department has built its reputation on over the years, but now it would seem that egoism, power and control are the new building blocks of the fire department. As an employee of Stanwood ambulance I am left with a feeling of extirpation for this is not a game that we play at Stanwood Ambulance, we save peoples lives and we are very good at it. To be thrown away like trash by people we work with, break bread with, laugh and share stories with, in other words, people that we thought were our friends is a huge disappointment in humanity and one I'll never forget.

Bob Schroepfer
Camano Island

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