Grand Prairie firefighters were extremely busy on April 2 when a storm moved through the city dumping torrential rain and setting three separate houses on fire with lightning strikes that morning.
The first fire began around 8:30 am at a house in the 3600 block of Forest Trail Dr. About five minutes later a call came in of a house fire about two miles away in the 2000 block of Plains Court.
While crews were making an interior attack on the fire that was confined to the attic of the house on Forest Trail Dr., arriving crews on Plains Court found heavy smoke and flames coming out of the roof of the two story house.
Firefighters immediately took a defensive position and fought the Plains Court fire with an aerial truck and exterior water streams.
It took about 20 minutes to control the Forest Trail Dr that caused heavy damage to the house.
Firefighters had to battle the blaze on Plains Court for about an hour. The fire caused an area of the roof to collapse, partially destroying the house.
The third fire, about five miles from the earlier fires, was reported around 10:45 am in the 5700 block of Palomino Way. Again, the fire that heavily damaged the house was confined to the attic area.
Fire investigators determined all the fires were started by lightning strikes and no one was injured.
