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Bay 66 Skatepark did suffer a large fire on Saturday night at around midnight. The motorway above the park was closed as fire swept above it from beneath the underside of it. It was not just a small fire whatsoever...
Fireman are still assessing the damage to the back end of the street course to detect the cause of the fire. That entire area is fully wiped out right now but firemen had it under control fairly quickly. Rumours of deliberate arson are flying around. We are not going to comment an any of these rumours until the assessment by the fire brigade has been fully carried out and reported back to us.
This is obviously a huge loss to the skate park and skateboarding in general in the South East but the park remains open and 80% of it is certainly still skateable. so do not think that gates are closed and will be for months because this is not the case. Your support is needed now more than any over time, the park remains open, business as usual.
I would appreciate it if you would think of all of the hard work that has gone into that place over the last 8 years and not sit there and slag it off. It is the hardest job in the UK to run a skate park in London due to rents, availablity of land, insurance and much more.. People run skate parks because they love skateboarding, not to make billions of pounds. Please remember that before you post negative remarks on this forum or on others. It will take a while to get this section of the park back to normal and a completely new structure will be built in it's place once we assess all the various options we have.
I can promise the people that regularly visit the park that we will be working on this as quickly as possible until we can get this section back up and running. Who knows how long this will take, but bit by bit i am sure you will be updated with news. It will be a lot of hard work but we are more than capable to deal with it and get it back up and running for this years Xmas Jam...
Big thanks to all who have posted their condolences, we will get this back up and running and better than ever, i can assure you of that.
Zac
Fireman are still assessing the damage to the back end of the street course to detect the cause of the fire. That entire area is fully wiped out right now but firemen had it under control fairly quickly. Rumours of deliberate arson are flying around. We are not going to comment an any of these rumours until the assessment by the fire brigade has been fully carried out and reported back to us.
This is obviously a huge loss to the skate park and skateboarding in general in the South East but the park remains open and 80% of it is certainly still skateable. so do not think that gates are closed and will be for months because this is not the case. Your support is needed now more than any over time, the park remains open, business as usual.
I would appreciate it if you would think of all of the hard work that has gone into that place over the last 8 years and not sit there and slag it off. It is the hardest job in the UK to run a skate park in London due to rents, availablity of land, insurance and much more.. People run skate parks because they love skateboarding, not to make billions of pounds. Please remember that before you post negative remarks on this forum or on others. It will take a while to get this section of the park back to normal and a completely new structure will be built in it's place once we assess all the various options we have.
I can promise the people that regularly visit the park that we will be working on this as quickly as possible until we can get this section back up and running. Who knows how long this will take, but bit by bit i am sure you will be updated with news. It will be a lot of hard work but we are more than capable to deal with it and get it back up and running for this years Xmas Jam...
Big thanks to all who have posted their condolences, we will get this back up and running and better than ever, i can assure you of that.
Zac
woah...
