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Midnight Service Heavily Damages Local Church  By: Christopher
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Christopher Shadrock)  BELTON (December 12, 2012)—A fire broke
out during a Vigil Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe service at
Belton's Christ the King Catholic Church that forced an
immediate evacuation and left the church heavily damaged.
Parishioners were ushered from their pews just after midnight as
smoke filled the sanctuary, but no one was reported injured.
Cynthia Diaz said the service had just started when the alarms
began to sound.  “It’s really sad because when we were there we
were barely starting to pray to the Virgin Mary since it was her
birthday today and so we were about to start singing and praying
and all of a sudden the fire started and it was really sad
because we didn't even get to finish,” she said.  “There was
smoke coming from above and below and so (the priest) opened the
doors to see what was going on and