New Church fire in Wills Point not arson case
UPDATE (1:53 p.m.): KLTV is on the scene of this morning's small fire at Wills Point International Outreach Church. Pastor Michael Williams says the fire was a small one that burned about a three foot patch of carpet under a pool table in the upstairs youth area of the church. Pastor Williams says it was put out quickly and says it appears it was
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Fire Kills 1 At Druid Hills Baptist Church
ATLANTA — One person was killed in a fire in a vacant church building in northeast Atlanta Tuesday morning, according to Atlanta Fire Department officials. The fire broke out in a community building at the Druid Hills Baptist Church in the 600 block of Seminole Avenue in northeast Atlanta. Church
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One Man Killed in Church Building Fire
ATLANTA – One man is dead following a fire at a building in northeast Atlanta. Atlanta fire Capt. J.L. Bundridge said the fire broke out early Tuesday morning in a community building at the Druid Hills Baptist Church in the city's Poncey-Highland neighborhood. Flames were already coming from
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Church members flee from burning church
HOUSTON (KTRK) — It was supposed to be a celebration of the new year and hope, but now one congregation in southwest Houston will have to keep things together after a fire destroyed their church. And now, they're trying to decide what they'll do next. It happened at the Celestial Church
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A late night fire destroys the original home of a Tennessee Valley institution. The building was currently on the Signal Mountain campgrounds of the Church of God. But it provided the roots for what we know as the Bethel Bible Village. The original cinderblock chapel however is now gone. Wednesday night
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Ceres Buddhist temple fire claims life of monk
CERES — A 52-year-old man died Friday after he inhaled smoke as he was trying to put out an accidental electrical fire at the Buddhist temple just east of Ceres Christian Church, fire officials said. The man was critically injured and taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead,
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Buddhist temple burns in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Fire heavily damaged a Buddhist temple in northwest Fort Worth late Monday night. The two monks who live at the Wat Lao Thepnimith complex at 7129 Marvin Brown Street said they heard a noise outside around 11:30 p.m. When they went outside, they found fire coming through the roof of
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Members look to rebuild after fire destroys Garden City Baptist Church
Rev. Rich McLawhorn jumped out of bed as soon as he heard his wife shriek. His wife answered the phone when it rang 3 a.m. Sunday and was told that their Garden City church was on fire. McLawhorn said there were fire trucks and firemen everywhere when he arrived at the Garden City Baptist Church at 501
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Fire in basement of Agios Panteleimonas church
(ANA-MPA) – A fire broke out in the basement of Agios Panteleimonas church in Acharnon avenue in Athens at about 9 pm on Tuesday. The fire was extinguished promptly by firemen who arrived at the scene and did not have time to spread. The causes of the blaze have not yet been clarified. However,
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Fire burns church: More suspicious blazes occur in Hinton
HINTON — Fires that destroyed a historic church and two houses early Friday were the latest in a string of suspicious blazes in town, officials said Friday. The historic Cayman Baptist Church and an adjoining house on State Street were destroyed by the flames, which began around 1 a.m. Cayman
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Fire erupts in Covell church shortly before Sunday school
COVELL — It seems the Rev. Chad Sparks might have inadvertently earned his name Sunday after an apparent electrical fire began after he turned on the air conditioning unit in the Covell Community Church sanctuary shortly before 9 a.m. “Lights started flickering like a haunted house,”
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