Police investigating the huge Easter hearth at a Cambridge church imagine the blaze was possible deliberately set, as officers on Tuesday requested the general public for any images or movies of Faith Lutheran Church from Easter weekend.
The raging 6-alarm hearth at 311 Broadway in Cambridge destroyed the church, and the steeple was eliminated final week.
The church had a service Easter morning, hours earlier than the constructing was engulfed in heavy hearth and smoke within the late afternoon into the night.
On Tuesday, 9 days after the devastating blaze, Massachusetts State Police requested the general public to assist them within the investigation of the suspicious hearth. The investigation contains the FBI Boston Division, native police and hearth, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“INFO, IMAGES SOUGHT TO AID INVESTIGATION INTO SUSPECTED ARSON OF CAMBRIDGE CHURCH,” Mass State Police wrote on social media.
“The Easter Sunday fire at the Faith Lutheran Church/Eritrean Evangelical Church in Cambridge remains the subject of a joint investigation by several law enforcement agencies,” MSP added. “The investigative team is asking any members of the public who may have information about the suspected arson to contact them.”
Investigators are in search of any images or movies of the church taken the day earlier than the hearth on Saturday, April 8, anytime on the day of the hearth on Sunday, April 9, Easter, or throughout firefighting operations between 5:30 p.m. on Easter and 4 a.m. on Monday, April 10.
Photos and movies ought to be despatched to fbi.gov/cambridgechurchfire.
People can submit tricks to the FBI at suggestions.fbi.gov. The FBI’s tip line is 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
Heartbroken members of Faith Lutheran Church are elevating cash to rebuild the destroyed church. Every week after a fundraising web page was launched, greater than $55,000 has already been raised. The GoFundMe donation web page is known as, “Faith Lutheran Church Fire Recovery Fund.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”