Watch Houston FFs Tackle Large Vacant Church Blaze

    Oct. 24, 2020
    Raw video captured Houston firefighters as they worked for three hours to put out the flames from a blaze that erupted at a vacant church in the Settegast community.

    By Anna Bauman

    Source Houston Chronicle

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    Houston firefighters worked for three hours to extinguish a blaze that broke out at a vacant church Thursday.
    Houston firefighters worked for three hours to extinguish a blaze that broke out at a vacant church Thursday.

    A fire damaged a vacant church in northeast Houston early Thursday, officials said.

    Firefighters responded around 12:30 a.m. to reports of a church on fire near Fleta Drive and St. Louis Street, in the Settegast community, OnScene reported.

    Neighbors said the church had been vacant for a year. Firefighters battled the flames for three hours and were mopping up hot spots around 4 a.m.

    Arson investigators responded to the scene.

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