Posted at: 08/15/2013 3:36 PM | Updated at: 08/15/2013 6:18 PM By: John McLoughlin

TROY - There could be some fireworks Thursday night coming Troy City Hall when the City Council Public Safety Committee meets, and one councilman demands answers about the emergency demolition of an old building said to be rife with asbestos.

Councilman Mark McGrath has been claiming that the fire chief gave the go-ahead for an emergency demolition job so that the extra cost of asbestos abatement could be avoided.

The owner of the property, and the head of the demolition company both denied that to NewsChannel 13 that the Christo Demolition Company simply did what it was told to do by Troy Fire Chief Tom Garrett, who says the old building on King Street was extremely dangerous.

Michael Cristo, who also happens to be a county legislator, says the chief has the legal authority to make that call.

Cristo says there was "No schemethe fire chief did absolutely nothing wrong, the mayor did nothing wrong, and I certainly did nothing wrong.

Mark McGrath, one of just two republicans on the city council has been claiming since last week that the democratic administration waited until City Engineer Russ Reeves left town on vacation for the fire chief to give the demolition order.

He says that the city has known forever that the building was loaded with asbestos, and that this was a big scheme to avoid the added cost of asbestos abatement

Well known attorney Don Boyajian owns the property, and Boyajian says there was no scheme whatsoever.

He says the fire chief called him, told him to had to come down, and Boyajian says Cristo Demolition was a name given him a few years ago by the city.

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The city plans to have the old Quincy High School knocked down before students start classes at the adjacent new school in three weeks.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Massachusetts Historical Commission on Tuesday gave the city permission to demolish the old high school, which was built in 1922. The old school closed in 2010 when construction of the new school on Coddington Street was finished.

The city needed approval for demolition from the federal and state agencies because the old high school is a historical property. In 2006, the city and the Army Corps of Engineers signed a document in which Quincy agreed not to demolish the building.

Now, with the go-ahead to demolish, the city plans to spend $3.1 million to raze the old school and turn the 3.85-acre site into green space.

The demo work is under way, and we will have it complete before school opens, City Solicitor James Timmins said in an email sent to The Patriot Ledger on Wednesday.

Quincys ninth-graders return to school Sept. 4, and students in grades 10 through 12 report back the following day.

Under the agreement that allows the city to raze the old school, the Army Corps of Engineers has mandated that the new green space be part of the new Quincy High School campus.

The federal agency also requires that:

The city establish a photographic record of the old high school by Aug. 26.

There is adequate space for off-street parking for those visiting the green space.

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HAYWARD -- Saturday's demolition of Warren Hall on the Cal State East Bay campus has been carefully planned down to the minute, but low clouds or fog could delay things for a short time.

"The implosion will take place as soon after 9 a.m. as safety and weather permit," said Mark Loizeaux, president of Control Demolition International, the company handling the explosives.

If energy from an implosion hits fog, it bounces off and comes back down, affecting where debris lands, he said. So skies must be clear, and that is the forecast for Saturday, he said.

Scientists are taking advantage of the demolition to study the Hayward Fault, which runs close to Warren Hall. U.S. Geological Survey scientists and

Mark Loizeaux president of Controlled Demolition, Inc briefs the news media on the upcoming implosion of the 13-story Warren Hall at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The building opened in 1971 and has since been determined by the California State University Seismic Review Board to be seismically vulnerable. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

One of the seismographs will be at Lee Baker's home in the Fairview neighborhood of unincorporated Hayward.

"One of the geologists came to my house and asked if it was OK to place one here," Baker said. "I said, 'Of course.' I'd like to see how much shaking is up here."

Baker was so interested in the project that he volunteered to help place the seismic sensors, which are a little larger than a soda can.

"This is the most exciting thing that has happened in Hayward since the Haywards Hotel burned in 1923," he said.

Warren Hall has been declared the most seismically unsafe structure in the California State University system. The university considered retrofitting the 13-story building but found that demolishing it was less expensive. It will be replaced with a more energy-efficient structure across campus.

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WESTON, Conn. -- The state is seeking to increase road safety by improving or replacing a retaining wall on Route 53/Newtown Turnpike in Weston.

The Connecticut Department of Transportations Office of Engineering is developing the plans. The purpose of this project is to provide road safety for the traveling public by proposing to improve/replace the retaining wall, which is showing signs of deterioration. This project was initiated as part of the Departments Retaining Wall Rehabilitation Program.

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TORRENTIAL rain caused a retaining wall to collapse at a Cooee property Tuesday night.

"The yard is a mess," property owner Jess Ruffin said.

A wild rush of water just missed Miss Ruffin's backyard yesterday morning.

Rising water levels in the creek at the back of the property caused Miss Ruffin's next-door neighbour's yard to become flooded.

"Luckily after the floods in 2011 the council came and built up our wall, our backyard wasn't far off from flooding though," she said.

"Last night I was up with the baby and the rain was so loud ... I had trouble opening the doors because of the wind."

State Emergency Service crews, police and council staff members responded to 12 call-outs across the North-West Coast during Tuesday evening and early Wednesday morning.

SES North-West regional manager Wayne Richards said most calls related to roof damage due to the high winds, water damage from leaking roofs and blocked and overflowing drains causing inundation or threats to residences.

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