The Rustburg Volunteer Fire Department in Campbell County, Virginia responded to a fire just after 3 a.m. on July 25 where they found a Chevy Equinox ablaze along northbound U.S. 29.
Images posted on the department’s Facebook page showed the SUV “totally burned out,” including significant damage to the body, doors, roof and bumper. Even the car’s frame showed signs of buckling.
But inside, fire crews found a Bible “still intact and mostly unburnt,” flipped open to 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, two Old Testament books that cover various genealogies of the people of Israel.
Photos of the Bible showed the pages slightly burnt around the edges but otherwise still legible.
Lt. Eric Spitzer with the Rustburg Volunteer Fire Department told WSLS 10, “I feel God is protecting firemen at scenes. I felt He … protected these people.”
As striking as the images are, it’s not the first miraculous story of a Bible surviving a fire in the U.S.
Firefighters in West Virginia acknowledged God’s power after a devastating fire in March 2019 burned down a local church but spared all of the Bibles inside.
A Bible that is approximately 150 years old survived two church fires in Wisconsin, including one last month, with the pastor declaring it “truly a work of God.”
And there are photos of an unburned Bible at a 9/11 crash site.