Lightning Strike Believed To Have Caused Plano Fire
Firefighters in Plano are busy battling a blaze at a condominium four-plex, after a line of thunderstorms moved across North Texas.
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Firefighters in Plano are busy battling a blaze at a condominium four-plex, after a line of thunderstorms moved across North Texas.
Heavy lightning is most likely responsible for several house fires in North Texas overnight.
Fire investigators in the city of Frisco are blaming lightning for two overnight house fires. The blazes were sparked less than seven minutes apart and caused more than $1,000,000 in estimated damage.
Firefighters had to break through wood and brick to get to the fire.
Firefighters say a probable lightning strike set a home on fire on Aberdeen Road near Princeton Road around 5:00am Wednesday.
Firefighters were able to tap out the flames, but the investigation into an early morning house fire is just beginning. The question – did a lightning strike spark the overnight Dallas blaze?
No one was hurt in the fire but everyone's belonging burned.
A gas well exploded and burned after an apparent lightning strike during severe weather that moved through north Texas Thursday evening.
Besides rain and floods there's another element to severe weather that's proving to be costly -- lightning. In Frisco, a lightning strike is being blamed for sparking a blaze that required four fire engines and a ladder truck to extinguish.
As a rodeo clown, Casey Wagner has often stared fear in the face, but it was Mother Nature who brought him to his knees, after he was struck by lightning -- twice.
