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Originally Posted by sounding
Most lightning house fires were with gas in attic, but not all.
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What typically happens when you home is hit by lightning is it blows a hole in your roof, then ricochets around your attic like a bullet seeking ground. As it does this, it's burning and destroying everything in your attic. If it strikes your gas lines or manifold in your attic It will ignite the gas and that fueled fire will accelerate your home burning down. Because of the intense fire from the gas lines, it will appear the fire started there. The strike at Sunset Pointe last year, look at the picture below and notice the garage ceiling totall fell most likely because of the ignited gas lines in the attic right above.