10 Comments Posted by joeniel

Session 9 was filmed at Danvers State Hospital.

3 Alarms--

FOXBOROUGH, MA Jul 14) : Around 12:30 PM The Foxborough Fire Department received several phone calls reporting a fire at the former Foxborough State Hospital on Chestnut Street. The former hospital is in the process of being demolished, and construction crews were on scene. Three alarms were needed to control the fire. The heat hampered the firefighters and rehab areas were set up. Flying brands started a fire in an adjacent section of the hospital and was controlled by mutual aide crews. At the time of this article the fire is still under investigation.

Pictures-- http://www.pbase.com/d...oro__3rd_alarm_71406

Its probably gone by now... this is one of the buildings I believe is gonna get renevated.. prbly taken out when they did the asbestos removal...

Is this in Massachusetts? What city?

Looks so sppoky up on the hill when you drive by it on 95... the water tower and the coupelas...

..and the crane : (

If you look at the building just above the right side of the 'V', you can see a small area of pavement- that is and old gated off acess route in the back. If you ever want to see Met State legally, then just drive down Emeline St and go all the way down and around.. you will be looking inbetween the male and female employees housing staright at the spot where Motts is taking the picture....

The CTG is directly to the right of him on the hill...

Actually, I dont think that MetState is going down the same exact path as Danvers and others... I hear that the golf course is only supposed to be a smaller one to the front (9 holes). But, thats even if it gets built. I have the luck to live within 5 minutes of the place, so I hear whats happening and not happening there. They have been saying for years now that thats whats gonna happen, but I think that idea was scraped. Currently, it seems as though the main road leading from Trapleo Raod in Waltham all the way to the other road in Belmont is turned into a parkway, which will soon be open to the public. Hiking trails and bike paths are also being put in in the woods between there and Gabler Childrens Hospital (another abandoned hospital that I live within 5 mins of :) ). Then, from what I hear, the Medical and CTG will be renovated into housing or buisnesses. No word on the other buildings yet... and DEFINATELY NO WAL*MART! And, sice we are on the topic, there is a 3rd abandoned hospital :) the oppostie way of gabler on Trapelo Road called Olympus Specalty (Middlesex County Sanitarium in its earlier years) that closed down around 1999. Unfortunately, Pulte Homes bought that and has all ready leveled the place and opened condos on it. The only untouched hospital of the three is Gabler Childrens... which is owned by the city and sits on new conservetion land called 'Mackarel Hill'...

(my fingers hurt)

Anyone got an update on which buildings are standing? It mite be easy to 'legally' view MetState from this new parkway they are hopefully gonna be opening... dunno what the means for the future of the buildings though...

How big was it? How many alarms?

I recommend that people not go to Metro anymore due to some rumors I have heard and some recent events that have taken place. The biggest rumor was that my friend said he was talking to a police officer on the Waltham PD about the place, and he said that they found a man dead in one of the buildings, and combined with many tips of people saying that they have seen many people going into the place, the Police will be installing security cameras all around the place to catch trespassers. Also, the event that happened was that on of the buildings, where the medical records was set on fire, suspected arson. It is currently under investigation. Be Careful!