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Fires Damage Six Alabama Churches
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| http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/...5591819,00.html
CENTREVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A series of fires damaged six rural Alabama churches
overnight, and investigators Friday were trying to determine whether arson was
involved.
Most of the churches were Baptist, located near major highways, and all but one
were in Bibb County, about 25 miles south of Birmingham.
The other church, in Chilton County, had been undergoing construction, which
could have been a source of the fire there, said Ragan Ingram, a spokesman for
the state insurance agency that oversees fire investigations. That church, New
Harmony Holiness Baptist in Fairview, was destroyed.
No arrests had been made Friday morning.
In 1996, race was a factor in a series of arsons that damaged rural black
churches in Alabama and elsewhere. But Ingram said the fires late Thursday and
early Friday destroyed both the churches of predominantly black congregations
and predominantly white congregations.
The Ashby Baptist Church in Brierfield, Rehobeth Baptist Church in Randolph and
Pleasant Sabine near Centreville all burned to the ground, said Bibb County
Chief Sheriff's Deputy Kenneth Weems.
The other two churches, Old Union Baptist in Brierfield and Antioch Baptist in
Antioch, were damaged.
Jim Parker, a member of the Ashby Baptist, told WBRC television in Birmingham
that he understood the fire began near the pulpit and that the fires at other
churches had a similar pattern.
At Old Union Baptist, the Rev. David Hand said the fire was discovered about
4:30 a.m. and extinguished before it could cause serious damage.
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| In article <memo.20060203172259.288A@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/...5591819,00.html
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> CENTREVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A series of fires damaged six rural Alabama churches
> overnight, and investigators Friday were trying to determine whether arson
> was involved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/...5602035,00.html
Fires Reported at 4 More Ala. Churches
BOLIGEE, Ala. (AP) - Fires damaged or destroyed four more Baptist churches
across the Alabama countryside Tuesday, less than a week after a string of five
blazes that were ruled arson.
``I'm not prepared to talk about the evidence yet ... but common sense tells you
there is a clear indication these fires are going to be linked,'' FBI acting
assistant director Chip Burrus said in an interview with The Associated Press in
Washington, D.C.
Rich Marianos, a spokesman for the federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives agency, said more than 50 agents were assigned to the case in
Alabama.
``This is our No. 1 priority nationally,'' he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/...5602035,00.html
What is going on in Alabama? Have you got some kind of revolution going down or
something?
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and starving, then we would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time,
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