GOFFSTOWN, Nh. (WHDH) -- Lightning sparked a huge fire at a baseball facility in New Hampshire.
Flames thirty or forty feet high left almost nothing behind at Allard Park, home of the Goffstown Babe Ruth League. The Allard family, which lives nearby, said it all started Saturday afternoon with a lightning strike.
?Very loud almost explosion like. Right then and there we knew something was wrong,? said Chris Allard.
Equipment for 80 young baseball players?along with pitching cages and batting cages were all destroyed.
The fire wiped out the entire field's water system, the electric, and more.
?There?s a lot of memories. A lot of kids have gone through this complex. There?s a lot of memories tied to that building,? said Kevin Baines, President of the Goffstown Babe Ruth League.
The building was used year round for training for young athletes but the league says what's most important is finding a way to get the players back on their feet by spring.
?We're gonna make it work. We're determined to do that. There are kids relying on us to make it work,? said Baines.
The league's president says they lost about ten thousand dollars worth of equipment in the fire - but they'll try to replace it with help from people in Goffstown because after all the victories out there, the Goffstown players can't just accept defeat.
?We?re determined to make it work. It's not gonna stop us from playing a season,? said Baines.
Babe Ruth officials said they?ll meet this week to figure out what the league will need in order to recover.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48521110/ns/local_news-boston_ma/
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