{"id":191682,"date":"2026-03-05T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:10","slug":"lightning-strike-causes-house-fire-in-fort-worth-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191682\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike causes house fire in Fort Worth, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A lightning strike caused a house to catch fire Wednesday evening in Fort Worth, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Fort Worth fire crews arrived in the 4200 block of Leeds Drive to find fire coming from the roof of a home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family living in the home said they heard a large bang as they were sleeping and then went outside to find fire shooting from the roof, according to WFAA crews on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire crews began a defensive attack on the blaze, according to crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses say the fire was started by a lightning strike during a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/weather\/dfw-weather-be-prepared-numerous-thunderstorm-chances-begin-this-week-heres-the-latest\/287-14ec0acc-a5a5-4638-a6aa-76467f94c44a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0round of storms;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0round of storms<\/a> across the Metroplex last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lightning strike caused a house to catch fire Wednesday evening in Fort Worth, officials say. Shortly before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7947,116,48731,124,118,117,9547],"class_list":{"0":"post-191682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fire-crews","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-fire","11":"tag-fort-worth-fire-department","12":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","13":"tag-fort-worth-news","14":"tag-lightning-strike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}