Bellingham house fire leaves 5 WWU students without a home

A fire damaged a house in the 1100 block of North Garden Street Wednesday morning, Feb. 19, leaving five Western Washington University students without a home.

All but two of the women who live in the house were in class when the residents started to smell something "funky" and a little smoky at about 8 a.m., said Ashley Novak, who was in the house at the time.