A fire at the South Shore Sports Center in Hingham, Massachusetts, escalated to four alarms overnight, with crews managing to get the fire under control Friday morning.The alarms went off just after 11 p.m., and flames were shooting from the entire roofline when firefighters arrived. Crews found heavy fire in the second-floor kitchen area.The damage inside is substantial, according to fire officials. At daybreak, crews were putting out hotspots."You can see the smoke still coming up. We can't really get to it. Not safely. So we're waiting. There's going to be a machine here to start tearing into it, then we'll standby and hit it as they open it up. But if we're not going to send anybody in for that right now," said Hingham Deputy Fire Chief David Levenson. There were no injuries to firefighters.Levenson said the building is likely a total loss, which will have an adverse impact on the leagues and teams that play there."This has been around for 25 years or more. Soccer, basketball, baseball, everything around here. It's going to be a loss for the community if they're not able to rebuild," he said.The State Fire Marshal's Office is on scene investigating the cause and origin of the fire.
HINGHAM, Mass. —
A fire at the South Shore Sports Center in Hingham, Massachusetts, escalated to four alarms overnight, with crews managing to get the fire under control Friday morning.
The alarms went off just after 11 p.m., and flames were shooting from the entire roofline when firefighters arrived. Crews found heavy fire in the second-floor kitchen area.
The damage inside is substantial, according to fire officials. At daybreak, crews were putting out hotspots.
"You can see the smoke still coming up. We can't really get to it. Not safely. So we're waiting. There's going to be a machine here to start tearing into it, then we'll standby and hit it as they open it up. But if we're not going to send anybody in for that right now," said Hingham Deputy Fire Chief David Levenson.
There were no injuries to firefighters.
Levenson said the building is likely a total loss, which will have an adverse impact on the leagues and teams that play there.
"This has been around for 25 years or more. Soccer, basketball, baseball, everything around here. It's going to be a loss for the community if they're not able to rebuild," he said.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is on scene investigating the cause and origin of the fire.
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