VIDEO: Neighbors watched thick smoke and flames consume a Port St. Lucie home after it caught fire Friday evening during a storm.
The fire happened on Bellevue Avenue. Video captured by a nearby resident shows flames coming from the home as smoke billowed into the neighborhood.
Neighbor Leigh Michele said she was inside talking with a friend while listening to thunder from a storm moving through the area when she heard what she believes was a lightning strike.
“I heard the lightning strike. It took out the internet and power briefly, so I knew it was around here. I happened to look at my cameras, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that house across the street is on fire,'” she said.
When she looked outside, Michele said the scene was overwhelming.
“I looked out the door. I’m like, ‘Oh, my goodness.’ The area was filled with smoke,” she said. Another neighbor, Glenn Doyle, said he also heard a loud crack during the storm but didn’t initially realize what had happened.
“I heard a loud crack, and it sounded like it came from the front of our house. Didn’t think anything of it,” Doyle said.
WBPF-TV ABC 25 West Palm Beach
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