Floating lanterns are often released during celebrations and festivals as symbols of luck and prosperity, but they brought the opposite for two Mesquite families and fire officials are blaming them for two house fires last week.
“I was born and raised in this house,” said Michelle Sullivan. “My whole family lived on the street.”
Sullivan still lives on Candise Court and says that for years, her aunt and uncle owned one of the homes that caught fire last Thursday night. “By the time we got down here, the flames were so high, they were probably 20 feet in the air,” said Sullivan…