Blaze that gutted Anglican Lutheran church suspicious: RCMP

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 5:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

The blaze that ravaged an Anglican Lutheran religion successful Carman, Man., has been deemed suspicious by the RCMP.

Pembina Valley RCMP were dispatched to the Grace-St. John's Anglican Lutheran religion aboriginal Thursday greeting aft a occurrence was reported. 

When constabulary arrived, crews from the Carman Fire and Emergency Medical Services were already astatine the religion but couldn't participate it because its level had collapsed into the basement, RCMP said successful a quality merchandise Friday afternoon. 

The church, built successful 1965 successful the municipality astir 75 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, has a congregation of astir 30 families.

Deputy Chief Joey McElroy previously told CBC his crews battled the occurrence from extracurricular the gathering earlier entering the religion and extinguishing remaining hotspots.

The occurrence was deemed nether power astatine astir 6 a.m. connected Thursday. McElroy said astir 75 per cent of the building's interior was compromised during the blaze. 

Police said determination was nary 1 wrong the religion astatine the clip of the occurrence and nary injuries were reported.

The occurrence has been deemed suspicious, and RCMP are asking anyone with video footage from astir the religion betwixt 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. connected Thursday to interaction the Pembina Valley detachment astatine 204-745-676.