Governor Orders Flags to Fly Half-Staff

Governor Reynolds has ordered all flags in Iowa to fly at half-staff in honor and remembrance of the victims in the tragic shootings in Lewiston, Maine. 

Flags are to be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Monday night. The governor’s order is issued in conjunction with President Biden’s proclamation to lower all U.S.  flags to half-staff for the same length of time.  

Gov. Reynolds also ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset today in honor and remembrance of Anthony “Tony” Hoffman of the Ionia Volunteer Fire Department, who lost his life in the line of duty on Sunday. Hoffman was killed in a traffic accident as he was responding to a field fire. He was a 17-year veteran of the Ionia Volunteer Fire Department.