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The smell of ash still lingered outside of Christ Church Apostolic two days after a fire almost destroyed it. Two firefighters were hospitalized responding to the fire in southeast Houston.

"I don't even have the words," Jon McDaniel, pastor at Christ Church Apostolic, told Houston Public Media while standing outside the church Monday after he spent the day assessing damage and salvaging what could be saved. "Saturday, when I was watching the church burn, I couldn't even breathe. And then going on in for the very first time today, I mean, I have no words."

Hours after the fire decimated the church, McDaniel said he and his congregants made a plan to meet elsewhere for Sunday services. By the next morning, dozens of churchgoers still attended servic

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