Anchorage police say a Friday morning church fire was started by someone who broke into the building.
The fire, located at the Lutheran Church of Hope on the 1800 block of W. Northern Lights Boulevard,
Someone broke in through a back window of the church, tore through the office, then used paperwork from inside to start the fire in the kitchen, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
The blaze activated the sprinkler system — which doused the fire before it could spread to other parts of the church, authorities say.
