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1 2  UER Forum > Archived Canada: Alberta / BC > abandoned hospital? (Viewed 1789 times) montyburns  Excellent!  |  Re: abandoned hospital? <Reply # 20 on 4/10/2006 1:31 PM >   That's great news! The only thing worse than a condo conversion is bringing a building down to put up two or three gaudy ones made out of particle board and plastic. That property was once really nice and I hope that they fix it up. Nothing beats looking at the Campsall bathed in golden light in the late afternoon... "To let evil words and thoughts pass without contest is to participate in their corrosive triumphs." Pepsi  Location: Edmonton, Alberta Canada Gender: Male I am who I am because I don't want to be anyone else!  |  |  |  Re: abandoned hospital? <Reply # 21 on 11/18/2006 10:16 PM >   The Charles Camsell has currently been having work done on it to build it into condo's but yesterday (Nov 17) it had a major fire that took hours to extinguish. however due to the vacancy of the building, it was only $5000.00 damage. Sat, November 18, 2006 Camsell burns Vacant hospital building By ELIZA BARLOW, EDMONTON SUN A firefighter climbs a ladder towards the vacant Charles Camsell hospital yesterday. A fire at a vacant Inglewood hospital, notorious until recently as a "magnet" for drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs, was finally extinguished around 7 p.m. yesterday after catching fire in the morning. A construction crew working at the old Charles Camsell hospital, 12815 115 Ave., reported a fire in the building at 8:57 a.m., said fire spokesman Nikki Booth. Firefighters found a blaze near the top of the building but quickly discovered it was too dangerous for crews to be inside, said Booth. DANGEROUS SITE "We encountered barbed wire on the stairwells and on the walls, holes in the floors, boarded-up rooms. So we removed our crews and set up aerial ladders with a hose." A crew was later sent up the back stairs to get closer to the blaze, said Booth. She said the fire was confined to the top portion of the building. By late afternoon, it was under control. Investigators later said a renovation crew had been cutting through a metal beam and the fire started when a spark ignited some insulation around a pipe. The Charles Camsell was closed in 1996 and has remained virtually vacant ever since. In the meantime, it has served as a set for a few television shows and movies, including the feature film Whitecoats produced by Edmonton's Minds Eye Productions. Controversy swirled around the Camsell in 1998, when Yellowknife North MLA Roy Erasmus said he'd been told some women were involuntarily sterilized at the hospital during the 1960s and 1970s. Inglewood Community League president Paul Adams said the hospital and site were owned by the city until developer Gene Dub bought it a few years ago. Dub plans to use the building for a condo development of about 560 units, said Adams. Dub couldn't be reached for comment yesterday. Construction workers were reportedly at the building exposing asbestos, which would then be sealed or removed. Booth said Alberta Environment was called to the scene but didn't find harmful levels of asbestos in the air. About 130 students from nearby Inglewood school were evacuated as a precaution, she said. Adams said the city kept 24-hour security at the site, but once the building was sold, tabs were only kept sporadically and the building soon went "out of control." UNDESIRABLES "It became a magnet for all sorts of undesirables. The parking lot would be used for all sorts of nefarious activities - prostitution, drug addicts, gangs living in the building. "The place was active 24-7. It's still a problem now, but not nearly as severe." Adams said the placing of a fence around the grounds has helped. He said the community league is in favour of the old hospital site being developed as housing for seniors, families or perhaps assisted living. Pictures of the fire are at http://www.edmonto...11/17/2394746.html James Host your site @ www.transithosting.com UER Forum > Archived Canada: Alberta / BC > abandoned hospital? (Viewed 1789 times)  1 2  All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 109 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 739118145 pages have been generated.