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THIS IS ONLY A TEST - Members of La Conner Fire Department, Fire District 13, Skagit Bay Search & Rescue, Swinomish Tribal Police and personnel from the Sinclair and Marathon refineries met at the La Conner Marina June 26 to practice extinguishing a mid-dock fire that spreads to several vessels. The drill was entirely scripted.
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, area firefighters and emergency responders are perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
This after Swinomish Reservation and the Port of Skagit's La Conner Marina were sites last week of major multi-department training exercises that participants lauded afterward for their realism and long-term value.
Skagit County Fire District 13 Training Officer Capt. Chris Olbu scripted a drill for June 26 that challenged several agencies, led by La Conner Fire Department, with the prospect of a mid-dock fire at the marina south basin that spreads t...
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