The Washington State Department of Health is actively investigating nine members of the Bellingham Fire Department for their roles in the July 31 incident at Station 1 in which an intubation procedure was attempted on the body of a recently deceased patient. Health Department spokesperson Sharon Moysiuk said Wednesday in an email to The Bellingham Herald that the department “has nine active investigations concerning the fire/EMS intubation incident.” The announcement comes a week after Moysuik told The Herald in an email that the Health Department was looking into whether an investigation of the case was necessary. The deceased patient was identified by family members in interviews with The Herald Tuesday as Bradley Ginn Sr. Though an investigation into the incident released Sept. 4 by Seattle attorney Sarah I. Hale said 11 members of the department admitted to intubating the patient, only nine of them were actually credentialed health care providers. The two others were office and accounting assistants.