I would like to just say how much the fire department has helped my family from the standpoint of emergency services, and ask for you to vote yes for the Durango Fire Protection District.
We are so grateful to them. My dad was James Gore, who passed away in 2013. In the last few years of his life, he was constantly falling. My mother couldn’t help him up, and he didn’t have the strength to get himself up.
So, my mom would call 911, and the Durango fire department would show up to get him up. Usually, he was OK, but he did finally break his hip. He was in rehab for six weeks, and when he got home, he fell again right away. They came, helped him up, and put out a notice to the rest of the fire department that “Jim Gore is home, so be on alert!”
Then in late 2016 and early 2017, my mom, Dorothy Gore, started falling. She wore a life alert button, and she fell at least two times that the fire department came. One time, she had locked all the doors and they couldn’t get in, so they climbed in through a window in the front. They immediately made sure there was a key they could get to outside.
She now resides at Sunshine Gardens, and is doing well there.
We have nothing but respect and admiration for this fire department, and would like to help their cause any way we can.
Evelyn and Kirk McLaughlin
Bayfield
