{"id":7040,"date":"2006-10-26T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:35:34","slug":"5225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/10\/26\/5225\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit\u2019s Messiah Covenant Building Escapes Fire\u2019s Wrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT, MI (October 26, 2006) \u2013 Messiah Covenant Church suffered minor smoke damage and was forced to cancel Wednesday activities when fire destroyed an abandoned building next to the church building, says pastor Bob Hoey.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirefighters battled the blaze for nearly 23 hours, Hoey says. Officials initially feared the building contained hazardous materials and they evacuated the neighborhood for about five hours.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third major fire in close proximity to Messiah in three months, Hoey says. Another large abandoned building adjacent to the church was destroyed in an earlier blaze, and materials previously removed from the structure also caught fire in a separate conflagration. \u201cTwo of them have been three-alarm fires,\u201d Hoey says.<\/p>\n<p>The latest multiple-alarm fire started around 3 p.m. Tuesday. Smoke was so thick that it almost obscured the church, which could not be seen from across the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were crying thinking they were watching our church going up in flames,\u201d Hoey says. \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle the church is still in one piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoey\u2019s wife, Evelyn, operates a private school in the church and says she has implored the city several times to do something about the abandoned buildings. \u201cThey\u2019re an accident waiting to happen,\u201d Bob Hoey says.<\/p>\n<p>A cause for the fire has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Messiah is located in an inner city neighborhood containing a number of abandoned buildings. The church has helped spark the growth of Covenant congregations in the Detroit area that have gone from two to seven since 1999, when Messiah was adopted into the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=7040&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT, MI (October 26, 2006) \u2013 Messiah Covenant Church suffered minor smoke damage and was forced to cancel Wednesday activities when fire destroyed an abandoned building next to the church building, says pastor Bob Hoey. 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