San Antonio Fireplace Division officers mentioned Tuesday the reason for the hearth that closely broken the rectory at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church over the weekend has been listed as undetermined due to the extent of the injury.
Officers mentioned the investigation will proceed.
Firefighters had been known as simply after 3 p.m. Saturday to the church rectory, the residence the place Father Jimmy Drennan lives. The house was engulfed in fireplace. The blaze was introduced underneath management in lower than 20 minutes, in line with the Fireplace Division.
The Archdiocese of San Antonio beforehand mentioned in a Fb submit, that Father Jimmy Drennan had left the residence solely minutes earlier to arrange for a vigil mass when a neighbor reported an explosion. Nonetheless, the hearth division mentioned on Tuesday investigators discovered no indications of an explosion, regardless of earlier studies.
Nobody was injured, and no neighboring properties had been broken, in line with the archdiocese. The rectory sustained important injury and the archdiocese’s insurance coverage will assess the losses.
Drennan resumed celebrating Sunday plenty on the parish and thanked San Antonio police, firefighters and EMS personnel who responded to the scene.
Except for serving as pastor of St. Margaret Mary, Drennan can also be a longtime chief of COPS/Metro Alliance, an interfaith group organizing coalition that performed a task within the marketing campaign in opposition to Proposition B throughout final 12 months’s Mission Marvel debate.
