(CNN) When firefighters arrived at Freedom Ministries Church in Grandview, West Virginia they were left stunned by what they saw.

A devastating fire -- so hot that firefighters had to back out at one point -- was ravaging through the building, the Coal City Fire Department said in a Facebook post

But as they went through the charred wreckage, they noticed something extraordinary.

"In your mind, everything should be burned, ashes. Not a single bible was burned and not a single cross was harmed!!" the department wrote.

The Facebook post, which went viral, features compelling photos of a pile of about a dozen intact Bibles surrounded by the rubble.

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