MILL CREEK—Outraged Mill Creek residents gathered at Station 76 in Mill Creek Tuesday, August 26, to protest South County Fire’s contentious decision to transfer out paramedic staffing from Mill Creek to Station 21 in Martha Lake in Lynnwood.
“I don’t understand the rationale for moving them [paramedic] out. It sounds like they’re chasing a data point of being able to get a paramedic to the site of an emergency fastest and that’s the data point they keep driving home, but that doesn’t mean that patient gets transported to a hospital sooner,” sign waver Tannis Golebiewski, Mill Creek resident of 22 years and Mill Creek City Council candidate, told the Lynnwood Times. “So not only have they moved a medic, because they’ve transferred them to somewhere else, but they’re saying that’s okay bec