{"id":155075,"date":"2026-04-02T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:07:08","slug":"kittanning-church-of-christ-damaged-by-afternoon-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155075\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittanning Church of Christ damaged by afternoon fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evening services were cancelled Wednesday after a fire broke out at the Kittanning Church of Christ in Armstrong County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the church along Blaney Road in Manor Township around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Video captured at the scene showed smoke pouring from the upper floor of the church building..<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-01-234808.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-04-01-234808.png \" height=\"351\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  An afternoon fire left some damage behind at the Kittanning Church of Christ along Blaney Road.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo Credit: Bill Blose<\/p>\n<p>The church shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DZkec876o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">evening update on social media<\/a>, saying that everything was contained to two downstairs classrooms inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please be in prayer for our congregation,&#8221; the church said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No services tonight due to a fire at the church building. Please be in prayer for our congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The church said there was a lot of water damage to the downstairs portion of the building and smoke damage to the upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be having services at the Kittanning Township fire hall on Sunday,&#8221; the church said.<\/p>\n<p>People are being asked to stay out of the building and the church added that they&#8217;re thankful that everyone is safe and that no injuries are reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evening services were cancelled Wednesday after a fire broke out at the Kittanning Church of Christ in Armstrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8289,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-155075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-armstrong-county","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}