‘Amy’s Wicked Slush’ Stand Burns in Healdsburg

This is a tough one. Late Tuesday night, a fire reportedly burned out the old Amy’s Wicked Slush building next to Memorial Bridge — once a hotspot for frozen desserts and other Boston favorites. Sonoma County photographer Tenaya Fleckenstein, who was at the scene of the fire, says she watched firefighters from four different agencies — the Healdsburg Fire Department, the Northern Sonoma County Fire District, the Sonoma County Fire District and Cal Fire — fight back the flames. Healdsburg’s city manager says that “the damage to the structure is significant,” but that “there were no injuries and nobody was in the building.” The cause of the fire is still under investigation, he says. Amy’s was an especially popular spot at the onset of the pandemic, when locals would drive through, pick up or eat outside in the large patio area. Still, Amy Covin, the woman behind the Wicked brand, had to shut down her riverside slush stand last fall after six or so years in business, due to what she called “serious infrastructure issues” that made it “too difficult and too expensive” to keep the location open. “It’s sad enough to see Wicked not survive the pandemic,” she tells the Press Democrat post-fire. “To see this at the very end of it is just heartbreaking for me.” Her property has been on the market for more than a year now, reportedly fluctuating in price from $1.5 million to $2.5 million, and will presumably be even harder to sell now. R.I.P. Wicked Slush. (Source: Tenaya Fleckenstein Photography via Facebook & Ariel Kelly via Facebook & Press Democrat; paywall)