The South Shore Sports Center, a popular complex for the Hingham community, Massachusetts, was destroyed in a fire overnight.
Flames broke out in the installation of Recreation Park Drive just after 11 p.m. Thursday and quickly torn the roof.
The firefighters arrived within five minutes of the first alarm and they found heavy flames in the office, the kitchen and the dining room. They spent hours trying to save the building, but the deputy chief of Hingham firefighters, David Levenson, said that the installation was a total loss.
The sports complex is well known on the southern shore for its sports leagues and birthday parties.
“Everything happened here”
“For 25 years or more (for) football, basketball, baseball has existed. Everything has happened here. It will be a loss for the community if they cannot rebuild,” Levenson told journalists on Friday.
The building is so damaged that investigators cannot yet enter inside to find out where and how the fire started. The firefighters had trouble making the water cover the flames.
“We are in a way in a way a main road, so the water pipes are generally a little smaller and the amount of water we needed was more than the main one could provide. We informed the water company. They did what they could to swell the pressure. You can only give so many things,” said the deputy chief.
Levenson said the next step will be the demolition of the complex.
“There were so many memories”
“It’s just sad,” said Leeandria Mannion, who lives in Hingham for 25 years. She has two sons and they organized their birthday parties in the center each year. “That’s why I just felt that I had to come here just to see because it had so many memories. Yes, it’s difficult.”
The South Shore Sports Center is detained and exploited with the family, according to its websiteAnd provides the community “a place to play, learn and celebrate our love of sports”.
Sean Cummings, a father of Braintree, came to see the damage for himself.
“It is quite devastating. This place has meant a lot for this whole community. My daughters have been playing here for over seven years, football and basketball. This will be a loss that is quite impactful for the community,” he said. “Parents will bring (their children) here, not only to grow as an athlete, but to grow as a person and be more active in their community.”
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Frank Niles is the president of South Shore Baseball Club, who uses installation for the storage of equipment and winter training.
“There is a lot of equipment in the building that we cannot get right now. I hope we can or that we have to find equipment to entertain 100 children,” he said.
Niles said that community support was immediate and overwhelming.
“The number of people who called me or sent me a text this morning … Baseball will continue,” he said.