Unoccupied building in Dorchester turns roofless

By adamg on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 12:20pm

The Boston Fire Department reports a big part of the roof at 208 Columbia Rd., a one-story building at the corner with Stanwood, collapsed shortly after 10 a.m., sending most of itself into the building and coating the sidewalk with bricks.

The department reports no injuries, says two neighboring buildings were evacuated as a precaution.

Neighborhoods:

Dorchester

Free tagging:

Columbia Road

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Comments

Was a laudromat

By Gary C on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 1:05pm.

Streetview

https://goo.gl/maps/k1XLwuhL22D2

Are unoccupied buildings

By Anon on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 2:29pm.

Are unoccupied buildings exempt from inspection? This had to be a few years coming.

Maybe those posts got knocked over

By Gary C on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 4:49pm.

Here's a photo of the inside from 2013 on FourSquare. If someone knocked out the "No Smoking" or "Closed" posts, that beam would probably do what it did today.

IMAGE(https://igx.4sqi.net/img/general/width960/220981_6NSmacMNh54vTfmD3q4fn4bBCVoVukV_7VdaosFVdQU.jpg)

It folded

By Rudi on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 3:56pm.

The roof suffered from the "drop off" service.