SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – Firefighters have managed to save a Southern California church sanctuary threatened by flames, but an under-construction church building has been destroyed.
Sixty firefighters battled Santa Ana’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church blaze for 76 minutes early Thursday. The Orange, Garden Grove, Anaheim and Orange County fire departments were called in to help Santa Ana firefighters extinguish the fire.
There are no injuries.
The Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/tj352R) says the fire was reported at 1:29 a.m. and it was extinguished at 2:45 a.m.
Santa Ana fire Capt. Ben Gonzales says investigators don’t believe the fire was deliberately set, but the FBI was routinely notified because it is a church fire.
Gonzalez says firefighters were able to stopped flames before they got into the sanctuary.
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