Large fire destroys old textile mill in Camden, Camden SC
Fire & ArsonA large fire destroyed an old textile mill near Mill St in Camden, SC. The building had old timbers and hard pine flooring that burned quickly. Several fire departments responded to the fire.
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I did see that there was a big fire up in Camden, one of the old textile mills burnt down.
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Yeah, (name withheld) was talking about that last night, and then I looked at it at the map of where they were talking about this morning.
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I've only been on that road maybe twice, and I couldn't visualize that building, but looking at the photographs, it was a big one, and I had some old timbers in it, and I guess they knew that those bricks were no longer going to, you know, stand on their own and be quite hazardous, so they've already started knocking.
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them over which is complete now.
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I can tell you from the pictures it didn't take much to tumble them down.
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Yeah,
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that old hard pine flooring just, well,
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it can do only one thing and that's burned like crazy.
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Fast and hot, yes sir.
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I think they had three fire departments working on that.
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Location mentioned:
Mill St, Camden, SC 29020
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