{"id":493585,"date":"2026-10-12T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493585\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:42:12","slug":"large-fire-tears-through-church-in-south-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493585\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire tears through church in South Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire tore through a two-story church in South Los Angeles overnight, and wasn&#8217;t the first time the building has been engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>KABC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abigail Velez Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/18272675_abigailvelez_160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 12, 2026 12:46PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A massive fire tore through a two-story church in South Los Angeles overnight, and it wasn&#8217;t the first time the building has been engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire was reported around 3:30 a.m. on South Paloma Street, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Strong winds at the time blew embers toward neighboring homes and forced firefighters to call for backup. No other structures caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nearly 200 firefighters attacked the fire with streams of water, knocking down the flames in less than two hours. By the time the fire was extinguished, much of the building&#8217;s frame could be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s at least the third time the church has burned in 13 years. Eyewitness News has video of the exact same structure on fire in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the fire is under investigation. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire tore through a two-story church in South Los Angeles overnight, and wasn&#8217;t the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[192017,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-493585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-192017","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493585","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=493585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}