As the fentanyl epidemic leads hundreds to an early death each year in Orange County, the county’s Board of Supervisors vowed to stand with law enforcement to combat the threat of fentanyl during a Jan. 25 meeting. “In our community, we lost a young man and his girlfriend. … They thought they were taking Xanax,” Supervisor Katrina Foley said. “They ended up dying in each other’s arms, and my friend, their mom, found them asleep.” The resolution—passed unanimously by the board—to join forces with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to fight fentanyl is anticipated to gain traction as the pressure to get support from state officials lingers. In California, fentanyl deaths persist as state law does not penalize fentanyl trafficking with the same weight as that of cocaine, according to Supervisor Don Wagner. “We are seeing an explosion of fentanyl out in our …