The South Shore Sports Center, a popular complex for the community in Hingham, Massachusetts, was destroyed in a fire overnight.
Flames broke out in the facility on Recreation Park Drive just after 11 p.m. Thursday and quickly tore through the roof.
Firefighters found heavy flames in the kitchen and dining area. They spent hours trying to save the building, but Hingham Deputy Fire Chief David Levenson said the building is a total loss.
The sports complex is well known on the South Shore for its sports leagues and birthday parties.
“It’s been around for 25 years or more (for) soccer, basketball, baseball. Everything went on here. It’s going to be a loss for the community if they’re unable to rebuild,” Levenson told reporters Friday.
The building is so damaged investigators can’t get inside yet to find out where and how the fire started.
Levenson said the next step will be the demolition of the complex.
