Smoke pours out of church on Pittsburgh’s North Shore

PITTSBURGH — Smoke poured out of a church on Pittsburgh’s North Shore on Saturday.

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Allegheny County dispatchers said they received a call about the fire at 2:52 p.m. in the area of Progress Street and Chesbro Street.

Crews were met with smoke and flames coming from an abandoned church in that location.

Several stained-glass windows were broken and smoke poured through the walls and out of the roof.

The fire was raised to a two-alarm response not long after crews arrived.

Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said nothing collapsed on the outside of the church, but some things did collapse on the inside.

The exact cause of the fire is unknown at this time but firefighters said it started at the center of the building on the first floor.

No injuries were reported.

According to the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, the building was formerly the Saint Wenceslaus Church, founded in 1871. It was the only Bohemian parish in the diocese and was used until 1989.

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