25 July 2001
Lightning fire erases wooden church in Brest district
A fire, touched off by a lightning storm on the night of July 23, erased the 1809 wooden church in the village of Priborovo, Brest district, the press office of the Brest Regional Department for Emergency Situations,
told BelaPAN.
Six emergency and fire engines were sent to the scene, but they found ashes. The baptismal house next to the church building was not damaged. Witnesses say that the pastor rushed into the flaming temple and saved the Bible and a cross.
The Department for Emergency Situations reported seven lightning fires in the Brest region on the night of July 23. One of them destroyed an uninhabited house in the village of Bolshiye Sukharevichi.
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