{"id":8303,"date":"2023-03-22T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2023-03-22T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T12:27:20","slug":"huge-fire-destroys-new-jersey-church-draws150-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire destroys New Jersey church, draws<br>150 firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fire destroyed a large New Jersey church, collapsing its roof as more than 150 firefighters fought to control the blaze.<br>Video showed the Fountain of Life Center&nbsp;in Florence Township engulfed in flames Monday night.<br>No injuries were reported in the fire, which started at about 6 p.m. Monday. The cause wasn\u2019t immediately known.<br>\u201cIt\u2019s a devastating loss,\u201d Russell Hodgins,&nbsp;a senior pastor, told Philadelphia\u2019s KYW-TV.&nbsp;He said his grandparents helped build it.<br>\u201cThe church is not brick and mortar, the church is really the body of believers,\u201d Hodgins told the station. \u201cGod will help us through this, and I believe the church will be stronger than ever.\u201d<br>The center describes itself on its website as a multipurpose, 120,000-square-foot facility with a preschool, basketball courts, and a fitness center. The school and recreation building survived the fire, according to news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/church-fire-d64717f17e1 cb360885e5f19a3eaa7ad\">Apnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire destroyed a large New Jersey church, collapsing its roof as more than 150 firefighters fought to control the blaze.Video showed the Fountain of Life Center&nbsp;in Florence Township engulfed in flames Monday night.No injuries were reported in the fire, which started at about 6 p.m. Monday. The cause wasn\u2019t immediately known.\u201cIt\u2019s a devastating loss,\u201d Russell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2223,1354,4018],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-church","tag-fire","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}