A 13-year-old-boy has been arrested Tuesday, as he was the main suspect in a fire that destroyed a historic Holyoke paper mill.

According to the Boston Herald, Lt. Michael Higgins said that the boy was arrested Tuesday night and police charged him with burning a building and breaking and entering during the night, having the intention to commit a crime.

The boy, whose identity was not made public because he was a minor, spent a night at youth detention facility and has to appear on Wednesday in Holyoke Juvenile Court.

I guess that their parents didn’t get to explain him that he wasn’t allowed to play with fire. Let’s hope he’s learned his lesson.

It hard to believe that a 13-year-old boy managed to set a fire that burned an entire paper mill and made about 100 firefighters to spend their evening trying to put down the fire. Moreover, one of them was transported to a hospital because of heat stress.

The police was sure that is was arson because the building had no power.

The mill has had some of its component stolen before as thieves managed to break into the building and steal brass fixtures, metal roof flashing, and copper piping.

The mill began functioning in 1853 and closed in 2005.