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“We are seeing more of these mixed-use occupancies where we have multiple floors of residential over a floor commercial,” he explained. With construction in Bellingham booming and the complexity of the structures increasing, fire officials have had less time for the inspection of existing buildings, Hewett said. “The reality of it is that those intervals are also based on the availability of an inspector,” Hewett said. A structure considered low risk could go years without the need for inspection. Hewett explained that the risk associated with the use of a building is a significant factor for how often a structure should be reviewed.įor example, a chemical manufacturing plant that has a very high fire hazard would ideally be inspected every six months. There are no laws in Bellingham - or the state - outlining how often fire officials need to conduct inspections of existing buildings.

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Retroactive requirements outlined in the code vary widely depending on the building.Įnsuring a building is compliant with code is often a shared responsibility between business owners and building owners. In existing buildings, determining what fire safety precautions are necessary relies heavily on usage, occupancy and what codes were in place at the time of construction. Jim Hestad, co-owner of the historic structure, declined to speak to CDN for this story, saying that he was processing the tragedy. The building, damaged beyond repair, has been largely demolished. The second floor contained nine offices with 12 tenants, mostly mental health and massage therapists. The ground floor of the Terminal Building housed the Harris Avenue Cafe and The Old Independent Coffeehouse. The second story on the south-facing wall of the Terminal Building is exposed after bricks fell to the ground under their own weight on Dec. “Looks like we had them on a two-year cycle,” Hewett said, reviewing the documents. “The county kind of went through the same thing that the city has gone through, where building has outpaced staffing,” Hewett said, recalling his previous nine years with the Whatcom County Fire Marshal’s Office, during which he conducted existing building inspections.īellingham Mayor Kim Lund did not respond to a request for comment.Ĭity records show that both buildings were slated to be revisited by fire officials in 2020, but the inspections did not occur. But he said he has concerns about the workload being shouldered by the city’s dedicated fire marshal and team of three fire inspectors. Hewett said that nothing about either of the recent fires would require changing the city’s fire code. However, the expedited efforts to search for victims might ultimately end up hampering the team’s ability to ever fully determine the fire cause, Hewett said, noting that under different circumstances, investigators would have been more meticulous in preserving scientific evidence. The cause of that fire remains under investigation. In the late-night Fairhaven fire, cafe owner Nate Breaux, 39, died of smoke inhalation, according to the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s office.

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The Bellingham fire inspector in charge of the site said that while a portable hood system was present, it was installed without the proper permits. No records exist for such a system in the kitchen of the State Street Bar, where a fire started in a fryer on Jan. The only required safety equipment was a fire suppression unit in the kitchen of the Harris Avenue Cafe, which was installed and code-compliant at the time of the fatal fire on Dec. The 135-year-old Terminal Building was also not equipped with a fire alarm system, sprinklers nor smoke detectors, fire investigator Shawn Linville told CDN in December. Existing building fire code inspections, unlike investigations and permitting, don’t have strict deadlines. The team oversees compliance permitting for new buildings, in addition to conducting fire inspections and fire investigations. Hewett said increasing demands on the city’s four-person Fire Marshal’s Office have impacted the frequency of inspections. How often an existing building is inspected is largely determined by critical need and investigators’ availability. No regulations exist requiring more-frequent inspections, Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Hewett told Cascadia Daily News. Fires in two historic Bellingham buildings within weeks, one fatal, have sharpened the public focus on safety inspections and fire codes in Bellingham, even though both structures were considered code compliant.Ĭity records show neither of the century-old buildings, Fairhaven's Terminal Building and the structure housing State Street Bar, had been inspected by city fire officials since 2018.

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