Three firefighters were hurt battling a fire in an historic church in Cheswold early on New Year’s Eve.
According to the Delaware News Journal, the fire was reported at the one-story Little Union Church on West Denneys Road. When firefighters arrived on the scene, fire was shooting from several windows. A wall collapsed shortly after firefighters put the fire out, according to the report.
Assistant State Fire Marshal Michael Chionchio told the newspaper the three injured firefighters were treated at the Kent General Hospital and listed in good condition.
Equipment and crews from Dover and Leipsic were also summoned to help fight the battle, the newspaper reported.
Damage to the property, which was historically a place of worship for the Lenape, part of Delaware’s Native American community, was estimated at $100,000, the newspaper reported.
State fire investigators as well as federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were looking for a cause of the blaze as a matter of protocol, the paper reported.
