It's 12:20 am and Lisette and I have just returned home after watching the Congregational Church on Main St. burn to the ground.
Just past 11:30 I was about to turn out the lamp post light when I noticed a HUGE orange light in the sky. Looking closer I thought it was Noah's house on fire. I woke Lisette and looking out the front hall window she said, "No! I think it's on Main St". We both ran outside to look.
The blaze was tremendous. The church steeple hadn't fallen yet and this is what caught our eyes - the fire reaching so far up into the sky.
We walked near the Somers Inn. After about 10 minutes, we heard and saw the steeple fall. Shortly afterwards the entire structure was gone, with the exception of one column that still seemed to be standing.
I'm sure you'll find pics on Facebook tomorrow. Lots of people there taking pics on phones. I almost ran in to get the camera...it really was an awesome sight from our driveway.
Wow. The church is gone. Karen and Sandy showed up and Karen said that the pews in the church had the names of the original congregants. Such a loss. Gosh. Main St. in Somers will never look the same.
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Dad said you can google somers cong church and there are videos of the fire and steeple coming down.
Martha said 3 teens have been arrested for the fire; they were smoking pot in the basement of the church.
so sad.............
This makes me really very sad. I saw the video someone posted and from the point you see in the picture here to when the entire building caved in takes less than 4 minutes, so crazy.
I just feel so sad about this. What. Wasteful, awful end for this historic church.
What a shock. So sad!!!
I just watched the video with Adela and now she is moaning, "Let's watch it agayan!"
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