Event Lighting started Tabernacle fire

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Series of mistakes led to destruction of Provo Tabernacle

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Provo • A series of errors doomed the historic Provo LDS Tabernacle to fiery destruction on Dec. 17, investigators concluded in a report released Thursday.

After a three-month investigation, Provo Fire & Rescue Fire Marshal Lynn Schofield determined that the fire started when a technician left a lighting fixture too close to a wooden speaker box in the tabernacle’s attic the night of Dec. 16. The light fixture, which was still connected to power, heated the wood during a dress rehearsal for Lex de Acevedo’s "Gloria" to the point that it ignited.