HOPKINTON, R.I. — Two firefighters were injured while battling a four-alarm fire at a Hopkinton, R.I., mill on Sunday.
One firefighter became wet from a fire hose and suffered hypothermia, but both are now in good condition, according to WPRI.
The fire took about 20 minutes to destroy the historic factory building.
“You could actually just watch it go the length of the building,” Fire Chief Michael Williams said. “You got almost a 200-year-old building, oil soaked floors, who knows what else.”
Hopkinton has no municipal water supply, so crews from neighboring Rhode Island and Connecticut towns with 18 different tanker trucks created a chain of water from nearby Pawcatuck River to the fire.