Fire damages historic Rock Branch Church
Posted on AllSides July 12th, 2024
The church appears to have survived potential disaster once again Friday, when a pickup truck belonging to lawn service workers who were mowing the adjacent township cemetery ignited. Soon, the pickup was engulfed, and flames were spreading to the church. "My brother lives over about half a mile," Brian Sadler said, motioning to the west. "I was at the fairgrounds working and he called and said, 'What's the fire at the church?" Sadler, chairman of the church's pastoral parish committee and a lifelong member, headed from the fairgrounds in Moville...