Bellingham firefighters confronted heavy flames upon arrival before striking a second alarm to battle a fire at a church in the Sunnyland neighborhood.
September 10, 2021
Sep. 10—The Bellingham Fire Department battled a two-alarm blaze at a church early Friday on Cornwall Avenue in the Sunnyland neighborhood.
Crews were called to the 2500 block of Cornwall Avenue at 4:25 a.m. for a commercial fire, according to the PulsePoint app.
“First arriving crews found heavy fire with fire through the roof,” a Bellingham Fire Department tweet at 5:15 a.m. read.
An earlier tweet said traffic in the area was impacted and asked people to avoid the area.
A follow up tweet at 5:39 a.m. said that there were no injuries and investigators were on the scene.
“Crews have a good knockdown,” the tweet read.