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Massive Fire Tears Through Historic Church Home To 'New York's Liberty Bell'

The blaze spread from an adjacent building to the Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan early Saturday. The fate of a bell dating back to the founding of the country is unclear.

A massive fire gutted a historic church in Manhattan that is home to "New York's Liberty Bell," which rang out to mark the birth of the U.S. in 1776.

The blaze broke out in an adjacent building just before the New York City Fire Department says, before spreading to the Middle Collegiate Church.

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