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Sep 13, 2009 9:29 am US/Eastern

Church Fire Cause May Never Be Known

REDSTONE TOWNSHIP (KDKA) ― The cause of a fire that burned down a church in Fayette County early Friday morning cannot be determined.

According to a statement from Thomas Maher who investigated the fire, the fire damage was too extensive to rule a cause.

Maher estimates the damage at $200,000.

Volunteer firefighters from nine departments rushed to Grace Baptist Church in Rowes Run, near Grindstone to put out the blaze.

A newspaper delivery woman saw the flames before dawn and called for help.

Don Johnson, a deacon at the church, says it's not the first time the church has had to deal with destruction as years ago, a tornado ripped off the roof.

No one was hurt in the fire.

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