This is what I know to date. I have a friend who has a loft in an old textile mill about a mile from the fire and have not had a chance to speak with him yet. It was the Greenhalgh mill complex, built in 1906, in the Darlington area of Pawtucket R.I. Demolition workers were in the process of salvaging the old beams prior to the fire breaking out. The mill was being razed to make way for a new Super Stop & Shop. For those of you who don't have Stop & Shop it is a huge grocery stop. The fire destroyed eight houses and damaged nine more. I'm already getting a picture of who was dong the actual work on the demo and they probably were not from the good old USA. on 11/15/03 11:16 PM, [log in to unmask] at [log in to unmask] wrote: In a message dated 11/15/2003 9:55:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: I wonder if the BOCA and CABO codes have a section on fire protection in high winds? I don't think that even the International Building Code could do anything about that. Sounds like more of a firefighting problem. Was the loss of this mill, and/or the houses, bad preservation-wise; which is to say, was there architectural value there? Ralph