Firefighters responding to lightning strike forced to shelter from tornado

Texas firefighters were called to a house struck by lightning, but needed to take shelter in the resident’s garage when a possible tornado struck.

Firefighting routinely involves high-risk situations, and a crew from the Cy-Fair Fire Department’s Station 11 in Houston faced two severe weather-related threats on Monday.

After responding to a lightning strike that caused smoke in an attic, the crew was about to leave the home when they noticed a rapid change of wind direction, bending whole trees to the ground…

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