UPDATED: Raw video from 4-alarm church fire in Middleborough, Massachusetts. Fire forces town to cancel parade. New video added.

The morning parade was schedule to march past the Central Congregational Church on Monday before a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial across the street. But firefighters were just getting the blaze under control at midmorning.

The blaze was called in at about 6:30 a.m., and firefighters from 11 towns eventually responded.

Fire Chief Lance Benjamino says the fire began in a back kitchen, moved up a wall into the church’s soaring white steeple. Officials said the church’s interior was a total loss, but some religious items might be salvageable. Officials were still investigating the cause.