[NYer]

Ping!

[fwdude]

But all the Crucifixes depicting Christ were burned to ashes?

[RoosterRedux]

Satan works wonders (sorry, I just had to say it). He can appear as an angel of light you know.

[Cicero]

Thanks for posting. I hadn’t heard about this before. That’s a remarkable picture!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Snopes debunks this, saying the statue is made of lead or something < /S >

[piusv]

Hail Mary, Full of Grace....

[Old Yeller]

Ceramic doesn’t catch fire.

[Salvation]

Miracles to happen.

[Vermont Lt]

When there is nothing to burn, it doesn’t.

[fatima]

I love this picture.It’s a reminder to Pray.

[Faith Presses On]

I looked for quite awhile on Google and also Facebook to possibly find a picture of what this area with the statue looked like before the fire, because without that there’s really no telling about this, but so far haven’t found anything. If there was sort of a garden of flowers around the location of the statue, that was watered, that could be an explanation. I tried looking without any English words, but just the different Spanish words that were given, and Lourdes, so as to maybe come up with a picture someone might have taken there before this fire, but as I said, nothing has turned up so far.

[Faith Presses On]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I would like to see some pictures of the area before the fire. Searches turned up nothing but I did with a little looking come across the location for this on Google Maps. The pictures are only from the other side, the roads that are visible in the background, but they do tell us some things. I'm going to try posting them, but in case I'm not able to, they're at this community page on Facebook that I own.

From looking around the area, though, which was from what I saw covered with overgrown grass that was likely not cut often, it seems that the grass that didn't burn might not have done so because it was regularly cut, to keep the statue visible, so there was nothing for the fire to spread to.

Another picture of the statue area after the fire, with more detail:



Then from Google maps:





In the top photo, recognizable features like some graffiti, a couple buildings, a traffic sign, and some sort of tower are visible.

In the bottom photo, the statue area is out of sight behind the smaller tree, or large bush, on the right.