The Plano Fire Department responded to several house fires overnight and early Thursday morning. Officials said lightning is likely the cause. <\/p>\n
PLANO, Texas \u2014 The Plano Fire Department responded to several house fires early Thursday morning, officials said. They believe lightning was the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a social media post<\/a> Thursday, the Plano Fire Department said its crews responded to multiple house fires accross Plano. The fires followed a line of thunderstorms<\/a>, which caused heavy rain to fall across North Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lightning is suspected to have sparked the fires, but the fires remain under investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n Another line of storms is expected to move through North Texas on Thursday, and a flash flood watch is in effect until Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Plano Fire Department responded to several house fires overnight and early Thursday morning. Officials said lightning is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-58008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58008","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=58008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}