3-Alarm fire spreads through cottages, church

    Investigators are searching for the cause of a three-alarm fire that swept through several buildings and a church early Sunday morning in Chester Heights.

    The Daily Local News reports the fire sparked at the Chester heights Campmeeting on the 300 block of Valleybrook Road, damaging three cottages and the main worship tabernacle.

    Investigators say it appears the fire started in the tabernacle, which has not been used in years.

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