A tree snapped and fell onto the street on Avalon Drive in Bethesda, Maryland during Sunday’s storms, taking down wires and causing neighbors to lose power.
“We lost power and looked outside the window and saw lots of smoke, and there were flames in the street,” said Diana Blumenfeld, who lives on Avalon Drive. “And then we could see fire outside our window, and initially it looked like the house two houses down was on fire, but it was actually the tree.”
Montgomery County fire said around 5 p.m. Sunday, they got a call from a homeowner reporting a tree got hit by lightning. When crews got to Avalon Drive, they found a tree on fire…