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What could happen if the Centennial Mills warehouse collapses?
['Hannah Seibold']
The Portland Tribune
The interior floors of the Centennial Mills warehouse are fully collapsed after a Sunday, Aug. 2, fire, putting it at risk of fully collapsing.
(Dennis Weis/Portland Fire & Rescue/Courtesy)As investigators work to determine what caused the four-alarm fire that destroyed the historic Centennial Mills warehouse, officials are also preparing for the possibility that the damaged structure could fail.
Portland Fire & Rescue said it cannot calculate the likelihood that the 116-year-old waterfront warehouse will collapse.
“The odds of the structure collapsing is not an achievable metric we can calculate,” PF&R Public Information Officer Rick Graves said in an email Tuesday.
“The most important underlying message is an active investigation,” Graves said.