{"id":311327,"date":"2026-05-12T02:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:49:37","slug":"sacramento-county-church-fire-damages-classroom-remains-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311327\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento County church fire damages classroom, remains under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire that damaged Victory Life Bible Church in Foothill Farms early Monday was under investigation, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire crews were dispatched at 2:21 a.m. to the church on the 5600 block of Hillsdale Boulevard, Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Mark Nunez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews arrived to find flames on the exterior of the building that had spread into a classroom, Nunez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFirefighters quickly deployed hose lines and were able to contain the fire to the front portion of the building while simultaneously conducting a primary search to ensure no occupants or victims were inside the structure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters contained the blaze to the front portion of the church. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire remained under investigation by Metro Fire\u2019s investigation team, Nunez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA reminder to our community that fires can double in size every minute,\u201d he said. \u201cIf a fire starts, get out immediately, stay out, and call 911 from a safe location. Never go back inside a burning structure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire that damaged Victory Life Bible Church in Foothill Farms early Monday was under investigation, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18348,66763,348,101331,121,123,32638,122,130490],"class_list":["post-311327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-fire-crews","tag-foothill-farms","tag-investigation","tag-mark-nunez","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-metro-fire","tag-sacramento-news","tag-victory-life-bible-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311327","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=311327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}