The "King of Kings" statute had become a nationally-known landmark, the most well known landmark in southwest Ohio. It measured at 62 feet high and 40 feet wide and reportedly cost the Solid Rock Church of Monroe, Ohio $250,000 to construct.
When crews arrived, Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu said the statue was fully engulfed and the fire had spread to the attic area of the church’s adjacent amphitheater. There were no injuries, said Neu, who spoke just before 2:30 a.m. to media at the scene. It was a “hot fire,” he said, which made it more difficult to battle, but it was extinguished within about an hour.
You can hear a couple of the first 911 calls on this page.
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<span> :-P :-P :-P
And the Voice of the Lord Sayeth with thundering sound:
I said I do NOT like effigies!!!!!
...Especially when they are made of polyester or other cheap flammable materials...
lolrofl 8-)
" It was a “hot fire,” he said, which made it more difficult to battle, but it was extinguished within about an hour."</span>
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<span>Ehhhh they put that fire out...? If I understand those pictures correctly, that Monroe Fire Chief gives himself and his team a tid-bit to much credit if there simply was no flammable material left to burn...! </span>
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The church is going to rebuild the statue, this time from a non-flammable material so God has to try harder to take it down.
So God is an art critic too?
I saying it was an act of God...
Now if this had been some "pagan" image, the Xians would be all over TV saying it was god's wrath against them.
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