“A 150 year old church is going to be made of wood.
Very dry, old wood.
I’ll bet it went up in seconds.”
I was in on a fire look this. Far from home on a motorcycle trip and could see the smoke miles away. When I got to the town the roads were blocked and I rode on the shoulder up to the deputy and told him I was a firefighter. He waved me through. I didn’t have a turnout so they had me driving a tanker to the next town to get water and dump it in a holding tank. The town well couldn’t keep up. Hottest fire I’d ever been to. I would back the tanker up to the tank and run back and open the valve. With no turnout the hear was nearly unbearable. I’d open it and immediately run around the truck ro where I was cooler.
I saw an old wooden building in a small Upstate NY town on fire one time.
What an inferno!
I can imagine you were pretty uncomfortable.