The red brick outer walls of First Baptist Dallas Church were singed black... The roof, windows and interior were gone. And the smell of smoke lingered.
On Friday night, the blaze, which caused the church's roof to collapse, grew to a four-alarm fire that sent smoke billowing over the city.
Church members and other residents of the Dallas area mourned... where many of the megachurch's members have been baptized, married and memorialized.
The fire occurred in the old part of the church's sprawling complex, where the main Sunday services are no longer held, but which has been in use since its construction in 1890.
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