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FUN LESSONS From left, Claudia Qin helps her three-year-old daughter, Katherine Cen with a craft while three-year-old Mariecel Castillo admires her handiwork with her mom, Mary Ann at a session of the Lower Mainland Purpose Society’s Fun Learning and You (FLY) program at Qayqayt Elementary School’s newly funded Early Years Centre. See story on page 12. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
City firefighters join fentanyl battle NewWestminster firefighters will be armed with naloxone in an effort to save drug overdose victims
By Theresa McManus
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New Westminster firefighters regularly respond to drug overdoses, but they’ll soon be better equipped to help save lives. Fire Chief Tim Armstrong provided a report to
council in June about giving local firefighters the ability to administer naloxone to patients suffering from opiate overdoses. “We spent a few months reviewing the issue and had a look at what many municipalities around the region are doing to help ad-
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dress the fentanyl crisis that is occurring in Metro Vancouver,” said Mayor Jonathan Cote. “When we started to see the data on the number of overdoses happening in New Westminster, which is a similar pattern in many other municipalities, we decided to take the next
step to allow our firefighters, who are often first on the scene in many of these circumstances, the ability to be able to administer naloxone.” Armstrong noted that New West firefighters are already responding to medical calls involving drug over-
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guys are well equipped with the tools, when they are already on the scene to do as much as they possible can for that patient,” he said. “I think if you reached out to any family, do they really care what agency is walking through the door in their Continued on page 8
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