Fire Guts Historic South Carolina Church

Fire has damaged another prominent African American church in South Carolina. It took firefighers about two-and-a-half hours to bring the blaze under control. The fire gutted the 8,000-square-foot church.

Members of Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville are cleaning up and looking for answers after the fire Tuesday night.

Officials are not sure how the blaze started, but a State Law Enforcement Division said the fire could have been started by lightning.

This is not the first fire for the congregation. The church was burned to the ground by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995.

Federal authorities are investigating recent fires at black churches.