Two juveniles, including a 14-year-old boy, have been arrested and charged with arson relating to a fire at a historic mill in the village of Victory Mills, New York.
The two minors are facing third-degree arson and second-degree criminal trespassing charges because of the massive blaze at the Victory Mill on Saturday afternoon, per Spectrum News. They were released to their guardians pending further action from authorities.
Firefighters were called to the scene at around 2:30 p.m. ET yesterday to find the entire building reportedly up in flames.
According to WNYT, the fire was contained in about an hour, but firefighters remained on seen for multiple hours to complete the job.
“We’ve already made the call that nobody is going into the structure unless there was immediate life at risk. We had no reports of immediate life, when I got on scene. I was told that there was nobody in the structure at that point. It was fully involved so we took a complete defensive approach to it,” said Chief Ryan Campbell of the Victory Mills Fire Department.
The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office immediately said the fire was under investigation. It was determined to be an arson, which led to the arrest of the unnamed teenagers.
According to CBS6 Albany, the charges will be handled in family court.
The Victory Mill is nearly 180 years old and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"The Victory Mill, which began operating in 1846, made 1.8 million yards of cotton cloth per year," says the official Victory Mills website. "In 1850, it employed 160 men and 209 women. Several companies owned and operated the facility over the years and unfortunately ended up closing its doors in 2000."
WNYT's Zach Richter said in a live video of the blaze that witnesses referred to the facility as "the Hogwarts in the neighborhood."
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