16-year-old revived after suspected overdose at Sunset Taco Bell in Bellingham

Multiple police units and at least two ambulances responded to the Sunset Taco Bell on the 1200 block of East Sunset Drive in Bellingham for an emergency involving a 16-year-old, local Bellingham media reported. The call came in the evening of Tuesday, February 25, 2026, according to the initial reporting and the raw incident line supplied to this newsroom.

The headline provided with the report said the 16-year-old was revived after a suspected overdose. The raw reporting line supplied to this newsroom cuts off mid-sentence after the fragment "found unresp," and does not include a completed account of on-scene treatment or who provided it.

The initial item specifies the scale of the response - "multiple police units and at least two ambulances" - but it does not name which law enforcement agency or EMS provider responded. The report does not identify whether Bellingham Police Department, Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office, Bellingham Fire Department, or another ambulance provider staffed the units that arrived at the Sunset Taco Bell.

Key details remain unreported in the initial material. The sources provided do not state whether naloxone or other emergency medication was administered, whether the 16-year-old was transported to a hospital, which hospital received the patient if transported, or the juvenile’s current medical condition. The reporting also does not include the youth’s name, gender, residence, or whether parents or guardians were notified.

The supplied material contains no on-the-record statements from police, Bellingham Fire/EMS, Sunset Taco Bell management, witnesses, or hospital officials. It also does not include dispatch logs, EMS run sheets, an incident number, or surveillance-confirming information for the 1200 block East Sunset Drive location. The broader KTVU news feed provided with the package contains unrelated headlines about overdose issues elsewhere in the region but does not corroborate details of the Sunset Taco Bell incident in the supplied excerpt.

Because the incident involves a 16-year-old, the reporting must observe juvenile privacy and medical-privacy constraints before publishing identifying or clinical details. Official confirmation of the timeline, agency names, treatments given, and transport status can be obtained through police dispatch logs and EMS run reports and through any public statements Bellingham Police Department or local EMS agencies choose to release.

The facts established in the materials provided to this newsroom are: the location (Sunset Taco Bell, 1200 block of East Sunset Drive), the date/time window (evening of Tuesday, February 25, 2026), the subject (a 16-year-old), the scale of response (multiple police units and at least two ambulances), and the headline assertion that the youth was revived after a suspected overdose. Official agency confirmation and medical details were not included in the supplied reporting and remain to be verified.