CLE CHURCH FIRE FOLO

AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER FIRE DESTROYED A HISTORIC VACANT CHURCH IN EAST CLEVELAND YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) MORNING. 
THE CITY TELLS ME THAT DEMOLITION WILL BEGIN HERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT IT WAS NO SMALL FEAT TO PUT THIS FIRE OUT AT THIS CHURCH. THIS HAPPENED AT PENTECOSTAL DETERMINE CHURCH OF GOD IN THE UNION-MILES NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS CHURCH IS VACANT. COUNTY RECORDS SHOW IT WAS ACTUALLY BUILT BACK IN 1872. SOMETHING TO CONSIDER IN FIGHTING THIS FIRE WAS THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE BUILDING. CLEVELAND FIRE TELLS US THE ROOF WAS ALREADY MISSING WHICH ALLOWED THE FIRE TO SPREAD MORE QUICKLY BUT ALSO ALLOWED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO FIGHT THE FIRE FROM UP ABOVE, USING AERIAL LADDERS TO SEND WATER DOWN INTO THE BUILDING.