At least five people were injured when a fire broke out in a Brooklyn church during an Easter Mass, officials and witnesses said.
Firefighters were called to Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompei Church on Seigel St. near McKibben Court in Bushwick just before 1:50 p.m., police said.
A parishioner said about 100 people were attending Mass when smoke alarms rang out.
“There was a Mass happening at that time,” said the woman, who did not want to be named. “We saw the smoke and everybody went out.”
Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News
A priest rescues the eucharistic host during a 5-alarm fire at Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii church on Seigel Street in Bushwick on Easter Sunday. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)
As firefighters worked to knock down the flames of the massive four-alarm fire, witnesses told the Daily News that a priest ran into the church and emerged several minutes later carrying the consecrated host and a chalice wrapped in cloth.
Five people were injured in the blaze, the FDNY said in a post on X.
