{"id":281270,"date":"2025-10-06T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281270\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:03:21","slug":"southwest-philadelphia-church-to-be-demolished-after-roof-bearing-wall-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281270\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Philadelphia church to be demolished after roof, bearing wall collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/woodland-ave-church-roof-collapse-frame-3358.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Southwest Philadelphia church will be demolished after the roof and side bearing wall collapsed on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Department of Licenses and Inspections said the Christian Union Church near 56th Street and Woodland Avenue will be demolished on Monday after the collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what led to the collapse. No one was injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RedCrossPhilly\/status\/1975032893425717690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Red Cross said<\/a> it&#8217;s helping seven people in nearby homes impacted by the collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;I said that all the utilities to the building have been secured and that part of Woodland Avenue near the church in Southwest Philly is currently closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fence has currently been set up around the church before the demolition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/tom-ignudo\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom  Ignudo<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Tom Ignudo is a digital content producer at CBS Philadelphia. Before he joined CBS Philadelphia in 2021, Tom covered high school and college sports for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He covers breaking news, sports and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live A Southwest Philadelphia church will be demolished after the roof and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,46749,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-281270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-southwest-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115326183820912485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}