{"id":68954,"date":"2025-08-09T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68954\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:47:08","slug":"viral-breaking-news-video-of-a-quebec-church-fire-is-re-labelled-footage-of-a-2024-construction-site-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68954\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral &#8216;Breaking News&#8217; Video of a Quebec Church Fire Is Re-labelled Footage Of A 2024 Construction Site Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what&#8217;s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Does a &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; video of a church fire document an arson-caused fire at a church in Quebec, Canada? No, that&#8217;s not true: The fire happened 10 months before the video was posted. Official reports at the time noted a private developer was developing housing on the site and the origin of the fire appeared to be a container next to the Notre-Dame-des-Sept-All\u00e9gresses church in the town of Trois Rivieres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video appeared in various posts including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sea2Sea1Way\/status\/1953880505054634366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in an August 8, 2025 post on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in an August 8, 2025 post on X<\/a> (archived <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/kHTO1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>) on the @Sea2sea1way account with the title: &#8220;BREAKING NEWS&#8221;. The title continued:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ISIS terrorist has set fire on a Church in Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is what one such post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"SeatoSeaTroiRivieresFire.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"679\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e813cb4375fa7bdf359c760874c8e697.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Screenshot by Lead Stories of post at x.com\/Sea2Sea1Way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video purporting to show &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; had been on Instagram for three weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMRLWtPyyyN\/?igsh=MWxhdDZscm85bTdoZw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted to the naz_hashem account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted to the naz_hashem account<\/a> (archived <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HI1D2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>) July 18, 2025, implying the Trois Rivieres fire was arson, with no links to documents or police statements corroborating that claim:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"NazHashemFireVid.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"452\" height=\"371\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bcff0776f42c4c08324e8b790199a7d7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Lead Stories screenshot of naz_hashem post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the days immediately after the fire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lenouvelliste.ca\/actualites\/justice-et-faits-divers\/2024\/10\/03\/incendie-majeur-a-lancienne-eglise-notre-dame-des-sept-allegresses-2DFBWP2635CWVJ2KU3H2V2I4HA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:French language;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">French language<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrl.ca\/recorded-vandalism\/former-notre-dame-des-sept-allegresses-church-a-total-loss-in-trois-rivieres-quebec\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:English language;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">English language<\/a> reports did not say the fire was arson-caused, instead noting the housing development being built at the site and reports the fire seemed to have started in a container adjacent to the historic church. Lead Stories will update this fact check when authorities respond with information about the outcome of the investigation into causes of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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