According to reports by CNN, an elderly man and his granddaughter died after a bolt of lightning started a fire in a house in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday evening, officials said.
The lightning came from powerful
storms that struck the area, causing auto accidents, flooding viaducts and
stranding cars.
The 911 call from the people
inside the house came in around 6:45 p.m., said Vince Luney, communications
supervisor for EMA Metrosafe, a public safety agency. Amid a flurry of other
emergency calls, firefighters were dispatched to the scene and arrived within
minutes.
The elderly man was bedridden and
his granddaughter was trying to get him out of the house, said Gregory
Frederick, the Louisville fire chief. The elderly man died of his injuries at the scene, according to Frederick, and
the woman was declared dead at a Louisville hospital. As reported by CNN International.
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