Source: Contra Costa Times
By Susan Abram, Staff Writer
Fire officials said Tuesday that the blaze that damaged much of St. Mary's Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East in Tarzana was caused by an undetermined electrical problem.
The church caught fire at 6:35 p.m. Friday at 5955 Lindley Ave., sending flames 150-feet from its soaring stained glass windows into the darkening sky.
Although some parishioners were attending Bible and Aramaic study classes that evening, and worshipers had been arriving for services, no one was injured in the blaze, firefighters said.
The House of Worship Task Force, formed in 1996 with various other law enforcement agencies, was called to investigate.
The investigation is now closed, a fire department spokesman said.
The church caught fire at 6:35 p.m. Friday at 5955 Lindley Ave., sending flames 150-feet from its soaring stained glass windows into the darkening sky.
Although some parishioners were attending Bible and Aramaic study classes that evening, and worshipers had been arriving for services, no one was injured in the blaze, firefighters said.
The House of Worship Task Force, formed in 1996 with various other law enforcement agencies, was called to investigate.
The investigation is now closed, a fire department spokesman said.
