{"id":5936,"date":"2025-07-18T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5936\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:51:09","slug":"fire-rips-through-historic-church-in-saint-ours-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5936\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through historic church in Saint-Ours, Que."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire broke out at a church on Thursday evening in Saint-Ours, Que.,\u00a0in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie region, the municipality announced in a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Sorel-Tracy, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu and Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu were called to help fight\u00a0the blaze that had engulfed\u00a0the \u00c9glise de l&#8217;Immacul\u00e9e-Conception.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an extremely painful moment for our citizens,&#8221; Saint-Ours\u00a0Mayor Sylvain\u00a0Dupuis\u00a0said in a news statement. &#8220;The church of Saint-Ours represents an important part of our history, the hallmark\u00a0of our community and our collective identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A powerful thunderstorm had swept through the town and surrounding areas\u00a0around the time the fire broke out though the municipality did not specify the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Saint-Ours was under a severe thunderstorm watch Thursday. Environment and Climate Change\u00a0Canada warned of &#8220;dangerous thunderstorms capable of producing strong gusts, large hail and heavy downpour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The church was built between 1880 and 1882 and is listed in the Quebec Cultural Heritage Directory.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, the municipality said\u00a0the convent, school, and presbytery adjacent to the church were not affected by the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major fire broke out at a church on Thursday evening in Saint-Ours, Que.,\u00a0in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie region, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}