Lightning strikes Moses Lake home, sparks fire
Moses Lake Fire Department firefighters enter a house that caught on fire in Moses Lake Wednesday morning after the house was struck by lightning.
MOSES LAKE — Lightning struck a Moses Lake residence Wednesday morning, causing a fire to break out in an attic at the house.
About 10 a.m. lightning struck the back side of a residence in the 520 block of South Glenmoor Drive. A hardware store employee told the Columbia Basin Herald he was in the neighborhood delivering an appliance to a house near the residence when the lightning hit and he noticed smoke coming out of the house.
Two engines from the Moses Lake Fire Department responded to the scene and were able to quickly contain the fire to the attic at the house and suppress hot spots. The house was empty when the fire broke out and there were no reported injuries.
— Staff report