{"id":257141,"date":"2026-04-19T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:03:08","slug":"lightning-strikes-house-starting-fire-during-storm-in-northeast-houston-hfd-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257141\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes house, starting fire during storm in northeast Houston, HFD officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said lightning struck a house in northeast Houston on Saturday evening, causing the home to catch on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Houston Fire Department, firefighters responded to a house fire in the 13000 block of Slate Mountain Lane on Saturday. Officials said they determined that the fire was caused by a lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes as Houston was impacted by widespread rain and storms on Saturday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/13-alert-traffic-10-mccarty-closes-due-flooding-according-houston-transtar\/18915249\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:13 Alert Traffic: I-10 at McCarty reopens after closing due to flooding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;13 Alert Traffic&quot;}\" class=\"link \">13 Alert Traffic: I-10 at McCarty reopens after closing due to flooding <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HFD said firefighters were in defensive mode briefly due to the fire on the second floor of the building, but that they were soon able to put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said there were no injuries to residents or firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC13 spoke with neighbors who were home during the storm and the house fire nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those weird things that one in a million would happen where a thunderstorm would hit a house and create that level of fire,&#8221; neighbor Maureen Sain said. &#8220;I&#8217;m really glad that our fire department, they&#8217;re trained professionals&#8230;they were so quick. All the rain stopped it from spreading across our street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Storms like that are always frightening, but I&#8217;m just joyful that everyone was safe from it,&#8221; Cody Sain said. &#8220;In the same way, I&#8217;m sorrowful they have to go through that because that could&#8217;ve been any of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities said lightning struck a house in northeast Houston on Saturday evening, causing the home to catch on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[120,5712,56,7189,58,57,9547],"class_list":{"0":"post-257141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-house-fire","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-fire-department","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-lightning-strike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257141","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=257141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}