{"id":38174,"date":"2022-07-14T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38174"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:57:31","slug":"lightning-causes-house-fire-in-snellville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=38174","title":{"rendered":"Lightning causes house fire in Snellville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Snellville\">SNELLVILLE<\/a> &#8212; Lightning is being blamed for a fire Wednesday evening at a home in Snellville that killed a pet cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gwinnett County fire units were dispatched at 4:46 p.m. to a report of a house fire on the on Amy Road in Snellville. The caller said a house was on fire with smoke showing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The caller said everyone was out of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival, firefighters found a two-story, split-level, single-family dwelling with heavy fire moving from the basement-level garage up the exterior of\u00a0the structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters met with the homeowner, who confirmed everyone was outside the house. She could not find her three cats. Fire crews deployed two 1 \u00be &#8211; inch attack lines to knock down the fire before advancing into the structure for a search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Completion\u00a0of primary and secondary searches confirmed that there were no people inside the structure, however one cat was found dead. During the search, firefighters identified a compromised floor system on a corner of the house. The finding was\u00a0communicated to all fire crews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no injuries reported during this incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The homeowner told firefighters she heard a loud \u201cpop\u201d after it began to rain. She began to investigate for evidence\u00a0of a lightning strike when she observed smoke coming from her garage. The homeowner then called 911. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire crews on scene determined the cause of the fire to be a lightning strike from a recent storm. All firefighters rotated through rehab before returning\u00a0to service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=8]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning is being blamed for a fire Wednesday evening at a home in Snellville that killed a pet cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38175,"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":[8498,8606],"class_list":["post-38174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-snellville","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38174","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}