Another Church Burns . . .
19 APRIL 2019
No one was inside the church at the time of the fire.
One person tried to fight the flames with a water hose before firefighters arrived to the scene.
One firefighter suffered minor injuries while fighting the fire.
Meanwhile, the congregation is dealing with the fire happening just before Easter.
Pastor Kevin Wells said the last person left the church just before 6 p.m. He said everything was off and the building was secure. A few hours later, he received a phone call that the church was on fire.
Wells said he and his congregation will use prayer to get through the ordeal.
"Out of tragedy we’ll find a triumph," Wells said. "We’ll find beauty come out of ashes and like I said we’ll trust in the Lord, here’s our rock and we’re going to praise him in the midst of this adversity."
The congregation had big plans for the holiday weekend in addition to the Easter celebration, including feeding the homeless. There also were plans for an Easter party for children and Sunday school classes.
Wells said they will have to find someone else to do the activities but the Easter service will go on in the church on Sunday.
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Man Arrested Entering St. Patrick's Cathedral with Gas Cans, Lighters
18 APRIL 2019
Authorities say church ushers stopped 37-year-old Marc Lamparello around 8 p.m. and notified nearby officers with the NYPD Critical Response Command, who took him into custody.
No one was injured.
Authorities say the Hasbrouck Heights, NJ man drove to St. Patrick's, parked in front of Saks and took two gas cans and lighter fluid from the car into the cathedral, where he was stopped.
"A guy was standing there with two gallons of gas, and somebody was talking to him," a taxi driver who witnessed the incident said. "He looked like a security guard or police officer. He said, 'I need gas for my car.' (The officer) said, 'Where's your car?' He said, "I don't know where I left my car.'"
"His basic story was that he was cutting through the cathedral to get to Madison Avenue, that his car had run out of gas," NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller said. "We took a look at the vehicle. It was not out of gas, and at that point, he was taken into custody and brought to the Midtown North station house."
Miller said that Lamparello is known to police. In fact, authorities say that he had been arrested on Monday after refusing to leave Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark.
Lamparello was sitting in the cathedral for about an hour Monday, and then refused to leave when the church was closing.
When Essex County Sheriffs Officers asked him to leave, he told them he still wanted to pray.
When they tried to remove him, he told them they would have to arrest him.
Lamparello was charged with resisting arrest, trespass and disorderly conduct in that incident.
Law enforcement then discovered that Lamparello had a one-way plane ticket booked for Thursday night from Newark Airport to Rome.
Several law enforcement agencies are now looking into his background and intentions. A neighbor told said Lamparello lives in the basement of his parents' house and that the family is very religious.
The St. Patrick's incident came just two days after the fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
There was a heavy police presence early Thursday morning outside the cathedral on Fifth Avenue.
"I've come to trust what we've got at St. Patrick's Cathedral, not that we can ever take it for granted," Timothy Cardinal Dolan said. "Last night proves that it works. We've got a very well trained interior security staff, we've got the constant help of the NYPD, which usually has an officer on the block for ready assistance, we've got the ready attention of the FDNY."
Dolan added, "Does that mean its fail safe? No, but that's why we come to church to pray for Gods protection."
Dolan added, "Does that mean its fail safe? No, but that's why we come to church to pray for Gods protection."
St. Patrick's Cathedral, built in 1878, has installed a sprinkler-like system during recent renovations and its wooden roof is coated with fire retardant.
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