Multiple fire departments responded to douse a blaze at a church in Waverly on Sunday, April 29.
According to Waverly Fire Chief Mitch Baldwin, the call came in at about 4:20 p.m., that smoke was seen coming out of Victory Christian Fellowship Church on Highway 24, just west of Santa Fe Elementary School. He said fire fighters from Alma, Blackburn, Carrollton, Corder and Dover joined his department in battling the blaze. He also said the Lexington Fire Department sent an ambulance, and help was received from the Marshall Fire Department as it supplied a portable cascade system. He said fire fighters also used a backhoe from the city to tear away some of the siding to get to the fire that started on the east side of the building.
Baldwin said most of the fire was contained to the east side of the church in the kitchen area and the first and second floors. He said the fire started between the first and second floors in the furnace room. He said the church sustained significant smoke and water damage.
Baldwin said there were more than just fire fighters on the scene.

Baldwin said his department was the last one to leave the scene at about 9:30 p.m.
Baldwin said nobody was in the church at the time of the fire, and there were no injuries to any fire personnel.
He said the state fire marshal was called in, and he ruled it to be an electrical fire.