Third fire in three years burns at same Bellingham property near Costco on Tuesday night
For at least the third time in the past three years, the Bellingham Fire Department was called to a residential fire on a property along West Bakerview Road near Costco on Tuesday night, Dec. 14.
But this time the structure, itself, was not damaged, fire department spokesperson Dustin Michaelis told The Bellingham Herald Wednesday.
Crews were called at 8:52 p.m. Tuesday to the 1100 block of West Bakerview Road for the report of a residential fire, according to the PulsePoint app.
Firefighters arrived to find a travel trailer behind the house on the property on fire, Michaelis reported.
Though Michaelis said the trailer was a “total loss,” there were no injuries from the fire and firefighters found nobody around.
Michaelis said the cause was undetermined.
The trailer fire comes nearly six months after fire crews were called to a structure fire at the same address on June 20.
In that fire, firefighters arrived to find the house “fully involved, with flames coming from the house and roof,” Michaelis said at the time. Crews were able to keep that fire from spreading to other items on the property, though a few propane tanks exploded.
Bellingham Fire Marshal Ron Richard told The Herald Wednesday that the cause of that fire was not conclusively determined, but his investigation led him to believe it was accidental.
Michaelis said he was one of the firefighters who responded to the same property for a third fire approximately two years earlier. That fire was limited to an RV and a carport on the property, he said.
“It’s too bad that there have been that many fires in that area,” Michaelis said Wednesday.
This story was originally published December 15, 2021 at 10:22 AM.
