'IT'S A SHAME'\ DAYTON BAPTIST CHURCH A NEAR TOTAL LOSS; CONGREGATION VOWS TO REBUILD AFTER FIRE.(News)

From: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) | Date: January 17, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Post staff report

The roof fell in, but the congregation didn't. The windows were shattered, but the spirits stayed whole.

And the soul will rebuild.

Fire raced through the 109-year-old First Baptist Church in Dayton Friday morning, ravaging the town's oldest standing church.

Plumes of thick smoke rose above the Ohio River shoreline as 50 to 70 firefighters battled frigid temperatures and the raging fire that officials said appeared to start in the roof of the structure built in 1895.

The efforts of firefighters from five agencies and a firewall kept ...

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