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(rshsdepot) B&M freight depot in Hoosick Falls, NY destroyed

B&M freight depot in Hoosick Falls, NY?

Police: Youth torched 120-year-old station 
Pan AM Railroad Station on Center Street was destroyed Saturday night 
 
Staff reports 
Last updated: 4:44 p.m., Sunday, June 10, 2007 
HOOSICK FALLS -- A 16-year-old has been charged with setting a blaze that destroyed the village's 120-year-old railroad station on Saturday. 
Police say the youth placed a gasoline-filled soda bottle and lit cigarette underneath a set of stairs at the Pan AM Railroad Station on Center Street about 10:55 p.m. 
The building, which survived a fire in January, went up in flames. 
Once the fire was extinguished, the station was razed, authorities said. 
Police, who say they have an eyewitness, charged the 16-year-old with felony arson and criminal mischief. 
He was not identified, police said, because he is a possible youthful offender. 
The Hoosick Falls, Hoosick, North Hoosick, Buskirk, White Creek, Pittstown Rescue and Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad helped extinguish the blaze. 


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Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ

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