Aurieona Ginn says her boyfriend “keeps up with The Bellingham Herald all the time,” tagging and sending her stories online that she might find interesting.
But she never imagined the story link he sent her last week — one that reported about the Bellingham Fire Department performing multiple intubations on the body of a deceased patient on the floor of the Station 1 apparatus bay in late July — would be about her father, 52-year-old Bradley Ginn Sr., who died on July 31.
“No way that was about my dad,” Aurieona Ginn told The Herald Tuesday in an interview. “We had him cremated and put his ashes to rest.” She even told her brother, Bradley Matthew Ginn Jr., who lives in Redmond, about the story, but he didn’t believe it either, telling The Herald, “We were like, ‘Naw, it can’t be.’”