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Photos: Blazing fire consumes vacant Rhode Island mills overnight

No injuries were reported.

Firefighters battle a fire at vacant multi-story mill buildings in Pawtucket, R.I. on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said that four buildings caught fire but that no injuries were reported. The buildings that caught fire sit at the border of Pawtucket and Central Falls. (Mark Stockwell /The Sun Chronicle via AP)

By Associated Press

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Mill buildings in Rhode Island went up in flames in spectacular fashion early Saturday.

Video posted by a bystander showed huge, pulsing balls of flame consuming the vacant buildings.

Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said that four buildings caught fire, but that no injuries were reported, WJAR-TV reported.

The buildings that caught fire sit at the border of Pawtucket and Central Falls.

The buildings that caught fire sit at the border of Pawtucket and Central Falls.

Firefighters battle a fire at vacant multi-story mill buildings in Pawtucket, R.I. on Saturday, March 14, 2020. 

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