{"id":310486,"date":"2026-05-11T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:31:08","slug":"north-highlands-church-damaged-in-overnight-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310486\/","title":{"rendered":"North Highlands church damaged in overnight fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters in Sacramento County are investigating after a fire broke out at a church in North Highlands early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, firefighters were called to the Victory Life Bible Church at 5697 Hillsdale Boulevard following reports of a structure fire. When firefighters arrived, they found a fire that started on the exterior of the building and extended into a classroom area.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were able to contain the fire to the front of the structure. At the same time, a search of the building was conducted to ensure no one was inside the church.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/north-highlands-church-fire-051126.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"north-highlands-church-fire-051126.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Sac Metro firefighters on the scene of a fire at a church in North Highlands, May 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to vigilant neighbors who noticed the fire in its early stages and immediately called 911, crews were able to respond quickly and help keep the fire damage to a minimum,&#8221; Metro Fire said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said Monday morning that investigators were on scene to conduct a thorough investigation to determine the cause and origin of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in Sacramento County are investigating after a fire broke out at a church in North Highlands early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3802,2440,130293,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-310486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-fire","tag-north-highlands","tag-north-highlands-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}