A fire at a long-abandoned church in Belleville has caused significant damage. Firefighters responded to the boarded up building at the corner of Station and Church streets at 10:20 Monday night.
No injuries were reported but the Belleville Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Branch has begun an investigation into the cause of the fire which is considered an arson and the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal will be contacted.
When operating as a place of worship the building was known as the Church of the First Born.
In January of last year windows were broken and the interior of the building was trashed with take-out food containers, needles and other drug paraphernalia to be seen everywhere.