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The Fire District 13 commis-sioners want to investigate contracting to take calls for the La Conner Fire Department.

The board last week voted to send a letter to La Conner Mayor Ramon Hayes to begin examining the costs and benefits of District 13 taking some of the La Conner Fire Department’s calls.

“I propose that District 13 get together with the town of La Conner…We’d take some of their calls,” said Commissioner Chuck Hedlund at the meeting. Hedlund, who made the motion, emphasized that this would be on a “cost-per-call basis.” He refused to answer this newspaper’s...