The damage of Friday’s fire in downtown Bothell is being realized as the smoke clears in the city. Fire officials with the city believe the number of businesses destroyed or damaged to now be at 20. It’s a devastating blow to the city’s Main Street, but business owners say it is not the end.
“Can I get anything else for ya’ right now,” asked Neville Redman to a customer. On Saturday afternoon, Redman was behind the bar in the pub he owns, while destruction was just outside his front door.
“We feel very fortunate,” he said. Redman owns Three Lions Pub with his sister, it sits on Main Street, just two blocks down from where the fire started. His bartender was still in the restaurant Friday morning, when the blaze broke out. Redman said his employee helped save his business.
“It was all coming in under the door,” said Redman, describing the deluge of water firefighters used, that ran from the flames to the street. “He quickly jumped into action and got everything he could to make a dam and that saved us a lot of water damage.”