Firefighters were working to extinguish a three-alarm fire Sunday at a church that sent flames and smoke soaring over a North Oakland neighborhood, authorities said.
Just before 11 p.m., Oakland Fire Department dispatchers received word of the blaze near the First African Methodist Episcopal Church building at 37th Street and Telegraph Avenue.
When firefighters first arrived, they found heavy smoke rising from a blaze, and called second and third alarms.There were no immediate reports of injuries or a cause of the fire., the building is home to the East Bay’s first and oldest Black church, which was founded in 1858 as Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Church before later becoming the Fifteenth Street Church.
“In 1949, Reverend H. Solomon Hill became pastor, and in 1954, led the congregation to a new church building at 3701 Telegraph Avenue, where it was renamed the First African Methodist Episcopal Church,” the archive listing says in part. “Since then, the church has been renovated and improved numerous times, notably surviving the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.”Crews responding to a 3 alarm fire at a church at 37th & Telegraph Ave. more details to come.
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