LONGMONT, Colo.—Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy and girl on suspicion of causing a fire that destroyed a vacant, 93-year-old flour mill in Longmont.
Police Commander Tim Lewis says the two were arrested near the mill, not long after the fire started Saturday night. They were being held in the Boulder County Juvenile Detention Center.
Their names weren’t released because they are juveniles.
Smoke from the fire could be seen from at least a mile away, and flames were leaping several feet above the roof of the Golden West Flour Mill.
Battalion Chief Rick VanderVelde said firefighters immediately tried to keep the fire from spreading, but it was too dangerous to make an attack inside the building.
The mill has been vacant since 1979.
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Information from: Daily Times-Call,
