Help Our Community Be Better Protected

You may have seen the recent story on the news that our beer garden and possibly our whole block could have gone up in flames.

From Bridget Chavez of KIRO NEWS:

SEATTLE — Cold winter nights in Western Washington have some people doing whatever they can to stay warm.

But one of the owners of Bad Jimmy’s Brewing Co. in Ballard said what appeared to be a warming fire almost cost him his business.

Jason Shrum, one of the brewery’s co-owners, said the fire was caught on surveillance and could have been much worse.

“A person had entered from over in that direction, had walked into here, set up shop in our beer garden and lit it on fire,” Shrum said. “It looked like they piled it up on the table and then lit it ablaze, whether it was a lighter or whatever to use, but it started a big fire.”

He’s still shocked that his business is standing because he estimated the flames were about four feet high.

“Had it gotten any higher and actually lit one of these tents on fire, not only our place but the neighboring places could have been damaged as well,” he said.

The fire started at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Hours later, CJ Daugherty, the taproom manager, walked in to find a mess.

“So I come around the corner, and it’s a big mountain of ash underneath the table that’s completely scorched and then debris kind of along the back wall there some torn up mesh where the embers went up,” Daugherty said.

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We are raising money to prevent more incidents like this. Not only for Bad Jimmy's but to help with the surrounding areas. We want to upgrade our security system, add motion sensitive flood lights, and other projects that will help protect us and keep our neighbors safer as well.

Please help and make our community strong. We are all in this together. Be safe and be kind.

Thank you!