WEBSTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A lightning strike sparked a fire that tore through the roof of a home in Webster on Thursday, leaving a family picking up the pieces.
The attic of the home on Colonial Road was struck as a row of powerful thunderstorms rolled across Worcester County.
“I was just in my garage and I heard this loud bang,” a neighbor said of the terrifying moment the lightning struck. “She called me up and said, ‘Can you go to my house, I think it’s on fire,’ and I did and it was, so I started videotaping.”
Fire crews that arrived to extinguish the flames managed to keep the fire from spreading but left the home with significant water damage.
There were no reported injuries.
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