Neil Furtado said when crews arrived, the metal facade of the dialysis center was smoking. Lynch said the dialysis center sustained some cracked windows from the heat and a hole in the roof caused by a fire from flying embers.įire Capt. “There was a couple of explosions,” the man said, who asked to remain anonymous.įirefighters worked to save the neighboring buildings by continually hosing them down, but Lynch said they had to let the mill go. said he could feel the heat from the fire just by touching his window. One neighbor at Border City Apartments at 2 Weaver St. No firefighters were injured fighting the blaze. Another section collapse followed.īy 9:30 a.m., just pieces of the brick frame were standing and fire was still smoldering in some areas.Īt the time the fire broke out, Lynch said, a security guard was on duty at the mill building. Within a half hour of fighting the blaze, part of the building collapsed. 1 on West Street, occupied by artist studios and a fitness center. The mill is just across from the Fall River Kidney Center and another Border City Mill No. Mutual aid was brought in from Somerset, Swansea, Westport, Berkley, Raynham, Taunton and Dighton. “Every piece of apparatus in the city was here,” Lynch said. Smoke billowed high into the sky and burning embers flew as far as Somerset.
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