Fire Destroys Former Bornstein Seafoods Cold-Storage Plant in Bellingham

A multi-unit fire broke out around 10:30 p.m. last Saturday night on the Bellingham, Washington waterfront at a seafood processing and cold-storage plant. By 4:25 a.m. Sunday, firefighters had extinguished the blaze and kept it from spreading to nearby buildings and boatyards. No injuries or deaths were reported. The cause and extent of the fire remain unknown at press time.
The building at 1001 Hilton Ave. was the former headquarters of Bornstein Seafoods, a family-owned business that operated continuously from 1934 until spring 2024.
The building is currently subleased to Michigan-based Lineage Logistics. All of the frozen fish products stored inside were destroyed in the fire, according to Bellingham Fire Captain Dustin Michaelis.
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