Voters in Kenmore and Lake Forest Park will decide in a special election Tuesday if the Northshore Fire Department will merge with Woodinville Fire & Rescue.
The firefighters' union doesn’t support the idea.
”It's a better deployment model for us, no one loses a job,” said Northshore Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Doug McDonald. McDonald said Prop 1 will allow for more efficient use of resources.
"Service is going to remain the same or be improved; my ability to move personnel around as if someone were to call in sick from Woodinville and I have additional staffing available in North Shore again this would be a combined agency,” McDonald said.
Northshore Firefighters Local 2459, the union representing Northshore firefighters, said the merger does not boost emergency services, reduces firefighter wages, and doesn’t save tax dollars.