WE ARE TRACKING THE VERY LATEST AND WE HAVE CREWS ASSESSING STORM DAMAGE RIGHT NOW AS WE HEAR ABOUT A HOUSE FIRE IN HARAHAN. YEAH, CREWS ARE AT THAT SCENE. LET’S GET RIGHT TO WDSU. CASSIE SCHERM WITH THE VERY LATEST KASEY. WELL, GUYS, WE’RE HERE ON BULLARD DRIVE. THAT FIRE HAS BEEN PUT OUT, BUT YOU CAN STILL SMELL THE SMOKE IN THE AIR. AND A LOT OF EMOTIONS AS A FAMILY HAS LOST ALMOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE FIRE CREWS SAY LIGHTNING HIT THEIR HOME RIGHT BACK BEHIND ME. HERE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE DAMAGE AS CREWS ARE GOING IN AND OUT ASSESSING EVERYTHING. BUT THIS IS A PRETTY BAD SCENE LOOKING AT NOW. BUT TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE ROLLED UP TO ABOUT 30 TO 45 MINUTES AGO OF THIS HOUSE COMPLETELY IN FLAMES. WE HAD ABOUT EIGHT DIFFERENT FIRE CREWS HERE WORKING TO PUT THIS FIRE OUT. I WAS TOLD THAT THE FATHER WHO LIVES IN THIS HOME HERE, HE WAS HERE WITH HIS TWO DOGS. HE WAS ABLE TO GET OUT. BUT WHAT HAPPENED MOMENTS BEFORE THAT FIRE STARTED, THERE WAS A MAJOR LIGHTNING STORM THAT WAS HAPPENING IN THIS AREA WHERE MANY OF THE NEIGHBORS SAY THEY HEARD A LOUD BOOM AND THEN SAW SMOKE COMING FROM THIS AREA, WHICH LED THEM TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS A LIGHTNING STRIKE THAT TOOK OUT THIS HOME. FIRE CREWS ARE AGREEING WITH THAT NOW, SAYING THEY BELIEVE THAT’S THE CAUSE AS WELL. ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET TELLS ME HE WAS ACTUALLY SCARED BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THEIR HOME THAT WAS HIT WHEN THAT LIGHTNING STRUCK MY WIFE ACTUALLY THOUGHT OUR HOUSE MIGHT HAVE GOT STRUCK, AND I WALKED TO THE FRONT DOOR AND I LOOKED OUT AND I SAID, NO, IT’S A HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET. WHERE DID YOU SEE THE FIRE COMING OUT OF THE HOUSE? RIGHT THERE ON THE ON THAT FAR SIDE, THERE’S AN ATTIC VENT. AND I SAID, HEY, THERE’S WELL, I DIDN’T ACTUALLY SEE FLAMES THERE, BUT SMOKE WAS POURING OUT. NOW, NEIGHBORS IN THE AREA SAY THEY ARE VERY THANKFUL THAT THESE CREWS THAT ARE RIGHT BACK BEHIND ME HERE WORKED SO HARD TO PUT THAT FIRE OUT AND MADE SURE THE FIRE DIDN’T SPREAD TO ANY OF THE OTHER HOUSES, AS THOSE FLAMES WERE VERY, VERY HIGH. SO WE ARE VERY THANKFUL FOR THE FIRE CREWS THAT WERE ABLE TO RESPOND. SO QUICKLY. BUT FOR THE HOUSE, THE FAMILY SAYS THEY’RE HOPING THEY’LL BE ABLE TO SALVAGE SOME OF THIS. BUT THERE WAS GUYS A LOT OF WATER OUT OF THERE. SO THE THANKFUL THING FROM THIS IS THAT NO ONE WAS HURT REPORTING HERE IN HARAHAN. I’M CASS