{"id":221451,"date":"2025-05-04T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221451"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:23:26","slug":"lightning-strike-sparks-house-fire-in-snellville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221451","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Strike Sparks House Fire In Snellville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lightning strike during last night\u2019s storms set a Snellville home ablaze, sending firefighters racing to the scene and forcing one person to evacuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Know:<\/strong> Gwinnett firefighters responded at 9:55 p.m. to a house fire in the 4000 block of Tower View Trail. A neighbor called 911 after seeing flames coming from the roof. When crews arrived, they found a working fire and quickly brought it under control. The fire was limited to the attic space. One person inside the home got out safely before firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters determined the fire started after lightning struck the house during a strong line of storms moving through the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-map is-style-satellite\" data-map-style=\"satellite\" data-map-details=\"true\" data-points=\"[{&quot;placeTitle&quot;:&quot;Tower View Drive&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Tower View Drive&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Tower View Drive, Snellville, Georgia 30039, United States&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;address.6380906580756398&quot;,&quot;coordinates&quot;:{&quot;longitude&quot;:-84.035797,&quot;latitude&quot;:33.756753}}]\" data-zoom=\"13\" data-map-center=\"{&quot;lng&quot;:-84.035797,&quot;lat&quot;:33.756753}\" data-marker-color=\"red\" data-show-fullscreen-button=\"true\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/?api=1&amp;query=33.756753,-84.035797\">Tower View Drive<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Context: <\/strong>Georgia sees thousands of lightning strikes each year, especially during summer storms. Lightning is a leading cause of house fires during severe weather. Fire officials urge residents to take shelter indoors during storms and to call 911 immediately if they see fire or smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=44]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lightning strike during last night\u2019s storms set a Snellville home ablaze, sending firefighters racing to the scene and forcing one person to evacuate. What We Know: Gwinnett firefighters responded at 9:55 p.m. to a house fire in the 4000 block of Tower View Trail. A neighbor called 911 after seeing flames coming from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":221452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8462],"tags":[14872,17866],"class_list":["post-221451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-lightning","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}