BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – No one was injured in an overnight fire in Bellevue. The call came in around 5 a.m. this morning (Friday).
Battalion Chief Dan Wachholz, with the Bellevue Fire Department, tells FOX it started at Phin Sushi and Steak. No one was at the restaurant when the fire started.
“We have heavy fire damage from the building of origin.”
He believes the fire was burning for some time before it was noticed.
Five fire departments battled the fire on Monroe Road.
Phin Sushi and Steak has heavy damage in the back of the building and other damage throughout.
The building next door has smoke damage. There is light smoke in the other businesses.
Wachholz believes most of the businesses will be able to open later today.
“We were very fortunate we had a good water source. This is a new area, a new building that was laid out well. We were able to make a good interior attack.”
But he also says the health department will have to come in and check the magnitude of the smoke damage before any other impacted businesses can re-open.
It’s not known what caused the fire.
An arson task force will investigate.
