A house along Chuckanut Drive that already had a 30-year history with fire, including a destructive blaze in April, burned yet again Thursday morning, June 27.
“I think its luck has run out,” South Whatcom Fire Authority chief Rod Topel told The Bellingham Herald. “When I left, it was pretty much just the chimney standing.”
South Whatcom and Bellingham Fire Department crews were called to the 900 block of Chuckanut Drive at 4:56 a.m. Thursday — the second time fire crews have responded to the address in 2 1/2 months.
“It’s always one of those things you take very seriously when a fire breaks out in the same location,” Topel told The Herald.
Bellingham Fire was the first to arrive on scene, Topel said, and found what was left of the structure was “well involved,” with flames showing.
Because the home had already burned, the size of the fire when they arrived and the unlikely chance anybody was actually in the structure, two engine companies fought the fire defensively, Topel said, putting water on flames from a safe distance outside.