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A ferocious fire tore through the historic and abandoned First Unitarian Church of Detroit near downtown this morning, gutting the 124-year-old Romanesque Revival building, Steve Neavling reports on Motor City Muckraker.
When firefighters arrived shortly before 6:30 a.m., flames were bursting through every window of the hulking church, raising suspicions that an accelerant may have been used. Firefighters called for an arson squad, which took more than two hours to arrive.
Neavling reports homeless people sometimes sleep in the church, but it was not known if anyone was inside at the time of the blaze.
Firefighters had problems with water pressure, a common problem with Detroit's antiquated infrastructure.
