{"id":7051,"date":"2022-08-10T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/church-faces-fire-damage-after-surveillance-footage-shows-man-breaking-in-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:55:38","slug":"church-faces-fire-damage-after-surveillance-footage-shows-man-breaking-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"Church faces fire damage after surveillance footage shows man breaking in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Justina Latimer<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/2022\/08\/09\/church-faces-fire-damage-after-surveillance-footage-shows-man-breaking\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        NASHVILLE (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/2022\/08\/09\/church-faces-fire-damage-after-surveillance-footage-shows-man-breaking\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WSMV<\/a>) \u2014 A man was taken to the hospital after entering a Madison church, allegedly starting a fire and jumping out a window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad&#8230;&#8221; said Pastor Sergio Arce of Madison First Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Arce says he left his church last Thursday shortly before 5 p.m.  Soon after, he heard someone enter the church.<\/p>\n<p>Dashcam footage shows a man ringing the doorbell and then breaking a window to gain entry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This individual did not steal anything. He did not take anything,&#8221; said Pastor Arce.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, the suspect, Jaron Ervin, was still in the building.  According to police, Ervin then jumped out of a window.  Asked how the fire started, he said: &#8216;I was sending an SOS&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The room is completely dark now. Things burned. There&#8217;s just a lot of ash, things that have pretty much decayed to nothing,&#8221; Arce explained.<\/p>\n<p>Despite tons of damage and destroyed items in the church&#8217;s education wing, the pastor is looking at the positives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As devastating as it is to have to deal with the damage that has been done to the church property, the bright side is that the church is not the building,&#8221; Arce said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo.  If you share the same marketplace as the contributor of this article, you will not be able to use it on any platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kesq.com\/news\/2022\/08\/09\/church-faces-fire-damage-after-surveillance-footage-shows-man-breaking-in\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Justina Latimer Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) \u2014 A man was taken to the hospital after entering a Madison church, allegedly starting a fire and jumping out a window. &#8220;It&#8217;s sad&#8230;&#8221; said Pastor Sergio Arce of Madison First Baptist Church. Pastor Arce says he left his church last Thursday shortly before 5 p.m. Soon after, he heard someone enter the church. Dashcam footage shows a man ringing the doorbell and then breaking a window to gain entry. &#8220;This individual did not steal anything. He did not take anything,&#8221; said Pastor Arce. When police arrived, the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}