Just watched my neighbors house go up in flames

[VintageMusclecar]

A girl who lives 2 houses up from me came pounding on my front door around 9:00 saying my neighbors house was on fire. I looked across the street to see a few flames starting to come out from under their back soffit. I called 911 and reported it, was just about to run over and see if anyone was home when the resident came stumbling out the front door coughing...I asked if there was anyone else inside and they said no.

FD got here about 5 minutes after, and by then about 1/3 of the house was on fire.

VERY thankful everyone got out OK, but the house is a mess...took the FD quite a while to get the flames under control.

Don't know what the cause is yet, but some of the neighbors reported seeing a big lightning flash and hearing a loud "pop" a few minutes before they noticed the flames.

The local news vultures...er...crew is outside filming video as I type, I'm sure it'll be all over the 11:00 news.