Skagit County was the third area in the state to have paramedics, following Seattle and Bellingham. The first paramedics in the county received their training in 1977 and were hired in 1978.
A specialist medic who could have been first on the scene at a crash which killed a dad-of-five should have been called out but was in a meeting she wasn’t meant to be in, an inquest has been told. It ...