HOUSTON – A fire crew was called to a northeast Harris County home on Saturday after a lightning strike reportedly started a house fire.<\/p>\n
NE Harris County: House fire caused by lightning <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The fire happened at a home on Slate Mountain Lane,<\/a> near West Lake Houston and Deussen Parkways.<\/p>\n Officials believe the fire was started by lightning due to the storms that were moving across Houston at the time.<\/p>\n RELATED: High water slows down East Freeway traffic<\/a><\/p>\n According to a Houston Fire official, the crews went into a defensive mode at one point because the second floor of the home was fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n The fire was eventually extinguished. No injuries or deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n There is no information regarding the extent of the damage to the home.<\/p>\n The Source: Raul Reyes, Houston Fire Department Senior Captain<\/p>\n Harris County<\/a>Houston<\/a>Top Stories<\/a>Severe Weather<\/a>Humble<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A fire crew was called to a northeast Harris County home on Saturday after a lightning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,1542,223,4375,2053,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-257383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-humble","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257383","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=257383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}