A year after two fires caused more than $20 million in damage to a Yakima fruit-packing supply company, investigators are still trying to find out who did it.
“The case is still open,” Jason Chudy, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said of the two August 2018 fires at Fruit Packers Supply on North 16th Avenue. “Nothing has changed.”
The company, which did not respond to multiple phone calls seeking comment, has since rebuilt the warehouse that was destroyed in the fire.
ATF was called in to investigate due to the complexity of the fire and the extent of the losses. Chudy said it is not unusual for a fire investigation to take a year or more.
“It’s like a puzzle,” Chudy said. “Every piece of information, no matter how small, fits to give us the bigger picture.”