A lightning strike set off a gas-line-fire at a home in a Dallas Bay neighborhood overnight.
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An early morning lightning strike caught two homes and more on fire in hixson .
News 12's winston reed gives us a daylight look at the damage.
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Around 6 tuesday morning neighbors in hampton woods called 9-1-1 to report that lightning struck a gas line, a tree, and a home.
Severe storms rattled through hixson throughout the night.
"i was asleep and all of a sudden i hear a loud explosion."
Neighbors in the hampton woods subdivision share their experience first hand.
"i go look out my window.
I see all orange through here.
So i go look outside and i see a giant column of fire right here and i'm like 'what on earth happened?'" what happened was a lightning strike.
It exposed a gas line that lead to a tree and two homes catching fire, according to hamilton county emergency management services.
Dallas bay fire crew sent these photos from when the scene.
They got the blaze under control, but two houses each sustained 20 thousand dollars in damage.
After letting the gas line burn to avoid an explosion, crews repaired the wiring both over and underground.
Crews explain that once the lightning hit the tree, it followed under the conductor line and led to the amplifier box on boy scout road.
Eventually diffusing itself.
The home immediately next to the fire was said to be vacant.
No injuries have been report at this time.
Reporting in hixson winston reed news
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