The influences that happened here you now, through the mentors here, its just devastating to us. Reporter rivera saw the fire from his house. It took 35 firefighters over an hour to control the burn. At times, flames could be seen several feet in the air. When crews first arrived, they had heavy flames and smoke coming through the ceiling. Reporter the center was the help of this community, a safe haven for children to go, it was getting a muchneeded makeover. In march, Tampa Bay Lightning owner two and half Million Dollars was donated to renovate the center. It was the single largest gift ever made to the Boys Girls Club. In a statement, the Boys Girls Club ceo said this incident affects us all deeply. Not only as an organization, but as a community. Rivera is helpful something new this is more than just a building to the people here. This is our heartbeat. Reporter and some good news. The county tells us that this building was covered under insurance. Stacy . I understand help is alr
The building. The incredibly sad part about this story, this was under renovation. It was a multimillion dollar renovation to make it into a boys and girls club. That money, 2. 5 million was volunteer nated from the venic family to make that happen. Part of the building was under construction. At this point we dont know what materials were inside. You have to imagine Construction Materials things like lumber, electrical equipment, all of those things likely fuelled the fire. Neighbors i here devastated by the loss for the kids in this neighborhood that would have coming here to this Recreation Center on a daily basis. Tennis, basketball, playing cards, hanging out with friends. Now they have to start from scratch. This entire building is a loss. It will have to be bulldozed to the ground. As soon as we get more updates here from tampa and this fire at wilson park Lindsey Logue. Good morning. Im dan shaffer. Im deal yeah riley. We want to get a check on your forecast. Ivan is standing b
Watching video from earlier this morning, corey. Those flames intense, going through the roofs and the windows and the doors. They were like that when firefighters got here. Absolutely. It was very intense flame s through the roof. Crews reported from blocks away they could see fire and smoke. When they got on scene they took a defensive attack since there was nobody inside. Reporter corey, this Recreation Center was under construc we dont know what equipment was in there but probably lumber, electrical equipment, that stuff certainly fuels a fire. Absolutely. Thats something that our commad units will look at. It was obvious it was being renovated. They will take that into account and the flammable things that could be inside. Reporter corey, thank you so much for your time. Best of luck to you men out there still working to make sure they get out of the hot spots out so the start the real work, find out exactly what happened here. A huge loss again to the community this Recreation Ce
Right here, tore through a tampa Recreation Center. This is the Winston Park Recreation Center undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation. Lindsey logue is live to show us what is left. It look like that building was destroyed. Reporter to the ground. Dan and deiah good morning to you. The roof caved in a couple of hours ago and t walls. Let me show you what is left of what used to be a place for kids to gather. Its now nothing but a pile of rubble and soot. Theyll have to wait even longer for the new Recreation Center they have been dreaming of. I used to come here all the time and play basketball here. They used to let us play with the kids in the inside of it. We used to have a lot of fun here. It was a good place. Frank lives down the block from the Winston Park Recreation Center, once a safe haven for standing here now its sad to see what happened to it. The fire started just before 3 00 this morning. The flames high and hot spread so fast by the time firefighters got to 76th and
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