A witness describes seeing someone with a ignited 'torch' lighter about an hour before the fire was first reported.
A witness describes what he saw before Oakland's first Black church, First African Methodist Episcopal Church, caught fire Sunday night.Oakland lost a piece of history Sunday night after a massive fire damaged the First African Methodist Episcopal Church - or FAME.
Butts is recounting the moments before Oakland's First African Methodist Episcopal Church, or FAME Church caught fire. Investigators tell us they haven't yet determined a cause of the fire but did have arson dogs on scene Monday, sniffing for any traces of accelerants. They say new information in the investigation could be released on Tuesday."I am really at a loss for words. FAME means so much to this community," says the church's pastor, Rodney D. Smith. "We have a feed ministry. We have our shoe drive the city and community knows about. We go out to the homeless shelters.
That community connection was evident in the number of people who have been coming by to see the damage.
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