Bellingham mayor fights fentanyl crisis with first-responder office downtown

Confronted with a mounting fentanyl crisis, Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund on Tuesday, Feb. 20 announced actions intended to combat both the deteriorating quality of life downtown and the drug epidemic’s rising death toll. Through an executive order she signed Tuesday, Lund is beefing up police patrols downtown and establishing a first-responder office near the Commercial Street Parking Garage, to bring emergency medical personnel closer to the high concentration of overdose calls downtown. T