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Old 06-17-2014, 03:22 PM
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Yesterday at the gym I was talking to a neighbor of the home that was struck on Isleworth Circle. Some of you might know that the house had a 5 car garage. She said the owners had an ATV, an RV, a couple of motorcycles and a boat. All the adult toys and mounted in the attic of the garage was an air compressor so they could fill the tires of any vehicle when they wanted.

I was thinking that if the roof was hit by lightning, that compressor in the attic might of been the reason the fire took off like it did. All those vehicles in the garage each with a tank filled with gas probably didn't help either.