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fensterm - May 17, 2009 @ 12:36 pm · Uncategorized

The Longfellow Park Latter Day Saints Chapel was destroyed by fire. Pictures of the early phase of the fire were posted almost in real time at a collaborative blog Faith-Promoting Rumor: exploring Mormon thought, culture, and texts .

Videos taken by J. Souza posted on YouTube by knowsaydo and a video by …posted by cambchron give a fairly complete narrative. My only contribution is to try to put them in sequence.

Smoke is pouring out of the steeple, but no flames are visible yet. A firefighter arrives pulling a line. A gentleman from the Quaker Meeting House offers refuge. [J. Souza]

Firefighters on the portion of the roof that would later collapse. [J. Souza]

Fire companies have lines going in the front door. A firefighter comes out to look through the front window. The roof collapses. He motions to firefighters inside. Out now! He goes in to get them. Firefighters with pikes and oxygen tanks emerge. [J. Souza]

The firefighters emerge pulling the lines from the building and set up to fight the fire through the windows. [J. Souza]

This has to be later when companies from neighboring municipalities have arrived. [J. Souza]

On scene interview with Cambridge Fire Department Chief Gerald Reardon. The fire is under control at this point. Interview with Grant Bennett LDS spokesman, “We’ll definitely rebuild.” Interview with parishoner Carolina Galvis. Footage of parishioners in a human chain moving recovered articles to the Quaker Meeting House.

KnowSayDo also has links to aerial photos of the day after by Chris Hirsch and Mathew Wall and interior shots by Hutchison on the Chapel Roof Collapses page. They are extensive. This one from Chris Hirsch is a good synopsis.

Rebuilding started today May 20, 2009:

Cutting the top of the LDS Chapel steeple May 20, 2009.

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