Historic MA Church Destroyed by Fire

Oct. 24, 2018
A massive fire that witnesses say was sparked by a lightning strike ripped through a nearly 150-year-old church in Wakefield on Tuesday night.

A massive fire that witnesses say was sparked by a lightning strike ripped through the nearly 150-year-old First Baptist Church of Wakefield on Tuesday night.

More than 100 firefighters from two dozen communities responded to the seven-alarm blaze but were unable to save the building.