{"id":336998,"date":"2026-07-11T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:44:08","slug":"lightning-strike-in-nw-florida-chars-wall-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336998\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike in NW Florida chars wall of home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GULF BREEZE, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) -The Midway Fire District reported on its Facebook page Saturday morning that a lightning strike charred a wall in Midway home during morning thunderstorm<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the post: a strong thunderstorm brought Midway Fire District crews to a home on Soundside Drive Friday morning after lightning struck the residence, leaving smoke and charring inside an exterior wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Midway Engine 37 was dispatched at 7:33 a.m. July 11, 2026 to the 5100 block of Soundside Drive for a reported lightning strike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The caller reported no visible flames, but said there was a smell of smoke inside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters arrived and confirmed evidence of a lightning strike, including smoke and charring in an exterior wall, according to the fire district. As a precaution, Engine 35 and Battalion 35 were also dispatched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews checked for hidden fire spread by accessing the area beneath a stairwell. To limit additional damage, firefighters made entry through a hall closet rather than opening up the stairwell, then cut a small inspection opening to verify the fire had not extended into the second floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After confirming there was no further fire extension, crews cleared the scene at 9:30 a.m. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GULF BREEZE, Fla. (WALA) -The Midway Fire District reported on its Facebook page Saturday morning that a lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-336998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}