Penner's Place in Buzzards Bay

[mikecc]

If your looking to stop for breakfast at Penner's in BB it is not going to be any time soon.


Firefighters battle blaze at Bourne Restaurant

Firefighters are on the scene mopping up after a two-alarm blaze attacked a downtown Bourne Restaurant,at 4 Main St. early today.
Bourne fire officials said they were called to the scene shortly before 2 a.m. to discover the structure "fully engulfed" in flames and heavy billowing smoke.
Firefighters from the Onset and Plymouth fire departments offered mutual aid.
According to one Bourne District Fire Chief the state fire marshal's office, the Bourne police and fire departments are trying to determine the cause of the blaze at Penner's Place.
Officials said the blaze apparently broke out in the patio and bar area of the restaurant. It quickly spread through to the kitchen area and up through the roof.
No one was in the building at the time and no injuries were reported.

[seabass]

too bad, I liked that joint.

[Skitterpop]

[missing link]

just put a job app in there a week ago


Jr Link

[Uncle Matt]

Link I would not sit by the phone waiting for a call.

I just saw the story on the news. They think the fire may of started on the porch where people would smoke. That stinks man. The Thomas' and I would stop there, have a few cold ones and nacho's.

Penners was a place where even smelly, stinky fisherman felt at home. I already miss the Keno....

[clambelly]

the call went in after 2am.

i believe they are closed then. i doubt it was someone smoking ciggs.

insurance job? someone with a grudge?

[Bigcat]

To bad..I would not eat in that place for free.

[Mike P]

We ate there twice in the last several months while house hunting. It definitely slipped in both quality and service from what I remembered.

Wasn't the outside deck all pressure treated wood? Would a cig light that stuff up without a little help?

[Mike P]

It won't be re-opening. Not until it's razed and re-built from the ground up. The whole place is gutted, end to end, and there's 30' of roof missing. Fire marshalls crawling all over the place.

My guess is that the CC Times will be using the words "of suspicious origin" by tomorrow. Someone remarked on another board that it's hard to imagine how a fire could get rolling like that on a well-traveled road without someone noticing and calling it in, unless it had a little help getting rolling. Especially when you consider that I could walk to the firehouse in about as much time as it would take for a first response. You're talking mere hundreds of yards down Main St.

[Saltheart]

Too bad. I have eaten there many times. Good food.

[Skitterpop]

went there at least a few times a year if not more

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Wasn't the outside deck all pressure treated wood? Would a cig light that stuff up without a little help?

Though a butt in an ashtray on the deck after hours blown against those dry wood shingles with the wind of late.... ok thats a stretch but you never know.
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The place was getting very run down as of the last few years...so maybe skullduggery ignited the flames.

I stopped today at the old Bud`s to have a look and fire marshalls were all over the bar area.

[jaywalker33]

I loved that place. Me and the wife (then girlfriend) would go there a lot years ago, they had the best steamers. Place was a bit of freakshow sometimes but the beers were cheap. Its a shame.

[Mike P]

Well, this certainly comes as no big surprise. As predicted yesterday:

Police: Penner's Place fire is suspected arson
BUZZARDS BAY - The fire that destroyed Penner's Place on Main Street early yesterday was intentionally set, investigators believe.

The news came in a joint announcement this afternoon by State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Bourne Fire Chief Charles Klueber.

A fire gutted a landmark between 1:20 a.m., when the last employee left, and 2:30 a.m. when fire trucks arrived. No one was injured, but the two-alarm blaze at Penner's Place on Main Street caused at least an estimated $500,000 in damage.

If anybody saw anything in the area between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., or hears anything about the crime, please call the Bourne Fire Department, 508-759-4412 - or the Arson Hotline - 1-800-682-9229, toll-free, 24 hours a day, officials repeated today. Insurance companies offer rewards of up to $5,000 for information that helps solve arson cases.

"All calls will be kept confidential," Coan said in today's press release.

"Arson fires frequently burned undetected long enough to get a big head start on suppression efforts," Chief Klueber said. "This is an example of where fire sprinklers might have made a difference and controlled the fire long enough for the fire department to save the building."

The Penner's Place blaze is Bourne's fourth restaurant fire ands in about a year and the second arson. The three others were The Bridge in January 2005, Quintal's Seafood in June and Hollyberry's in November. The Bridge fire was determined to be arson.


- By the Cape Cod Times

[PNG]

Better put guards on Leo's, about the only place left.

[Mike P]

Or maybe Sandy's