February 18th, 2009
Worcester State Hospital Fire
squad546 over at the Asylum Projects Forum scored the biggest asylum-related find of the year (so far) by tracking down video footage of the 1991 Worcester State Hospital fire. The video was taken by a gentleman named Michael Newton, who gave squad546 permission to post it on the web. I’ve included a few screenshots in this post, but you can see a lot more here: Worcester Fire Footage.
squad546 will try to get the actual video uploaded to the web soon. I’ll link to it once it’s available. I’d like to give a big thanks to Mr Newton for sharing this footage. It’s sad to see, but amazing at the same time, and I’m glad it was documented like this.
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I’d like to say this is going to be cool but it will be sad to watch.
On that note does anyone know if anyone was ever caught/convicted in the arson?
Officially the reports blamed “vagrants” for starting the fire, although who starts a fire in mid-July to keep warm?! The other suspect was a contractor who bid on taking down one wing of the Kirkbride. I’m gonna get the video uploaded soon!
Hmmm. People might start a fire in July to cook food, but that doesn’t mean that’s what happened.
I’m really looking forward to that video!
Well i just barely began looking into this place. I have a lot of questions but I’ll stick with one for now. And im curious on how it actually caught fire? I know it was only part that caught fire but still. Why? If someone could fill me in on somethings , I would greatly appericate it .