{"id":878975,"date":"2026-09-01T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878975\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:26:09","slug":"firefighters-battling-vernon-church-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878975\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battling Vernon church blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Firefighters battling Vernon church blaze<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 6:53 pm Monday, August 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Roger Knox\/Vernon Morning Star\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Vernon Fire Rescue Services are on-scene at a blaze at Vernon\u2019s Alliance Church.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple calls were put into the fire department in regards to the incident just after 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is at the front of the church, and there are reports of heavy smoke billowing out of its roof. <\/p>\n<p>The church is located in the 2600 block of 43rd Avenue, which is now closed between 25th and 27th streets.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have been lining the streets watching the fire at the historic church.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Alliance Church began on May 17, 1953, with 18 people meeting in a living room of a home.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battling Vernon church blaze Published 6:53 pm Monday, August 31, 2026 By Roger Knox\/Vernon Morning Star Vernon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,79004,87674],"class_list":["post-878975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-okanagan","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878975","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=878975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}