Caught on camera: Lightning strikes Texas home igniting 2-alarm fire, displacing family

COLLEYVILLE, Texas – The fury of a lightning bolt was caught connected a neighbor's location information camera arsenic it ignited the extortion of a location successful Colleyville, Texas. 

The lightning onslaught happened conscionable aft 1 p.m. section clip connected Monday, portion of a multiday terrible upwind threat that is concentrated implicit parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

Smoke and flames could beryllium seen billowing retired of the location instantly aft the bolt struck the home.

The City of Colleyville told FOX Weather that the occurrence reached 2 alarms, and 3 radical were taken to the infirmary with insignificant injuries.

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According to an online fundraiser, Monday's lightning bolt struck adjacent the second-floor bedrooms of 2 children, and the family has been displaced. 

The Insurance Information Institute, an security probe organization, determined that lightning caused over $1 cardinal successful location security payouts successful 2023.

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A caller survey recovered that Texas had 40.4 cardinal lightning strikes successful 2024, which was much than the adjacent 3 states combined.