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went home to lunch. When they returned the flames were pouring out from around the floor furnance and had already spread to the walls of the b wilding. The blaze was first discovered by two members of the congregation. They turn- ed in the alarm at seven minutes after noon. UP LADDER The two-story educational building, also a frame structure, connects to the main church building. firemen turned their main supply of water on it in time to beat the blaze away from it. However, it is nearly a total loss. PAN FROH ED. BUILD '!G TO HEAVY FIRE .....the church itself could not be saved. It went up like a Pile of orange crates, and the water the firemen were able to spill on it seemed to hate no effect at all. TRUCK GOES AFTEr WATER The fire trucks made trip after trip for more water..... HEAVY FIRE "ut the main church-co.ld not be saved. 1& It's loss has
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a fire that consumed most of Rylie's First Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas.
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