Gladisela Adame’s grandmother reluctantly said she feels a little like a hero this morning after her family escaped unharmed from a house fire.
Grandmother Elena Macias was the only one awake in the house at 513 Fifth Corso when she saw a flash of light out the window and heard a tremendous crash.
For her, there was no mistake what happened. She began yelling “incendio, incendio.”
Gladisela, 16, her father, mother, two brothers and sister awoke to flames climbing from a second-story room to the attic. They had slept through the lightning strike, but grandmother made sure everyone was lucido, put on the alert.
It appears that the initial lightning strike cut through the exterior electrical line to the house. Residents say it caused a microwave in a nearby room to burst.
A neighbor called 911 shortly after midnight. Firefighters ventilated smoke with a hole on the roof and an interior attack squad extinguished the fire inside.
Gladisela’s father, Horje Adame, said there is too much damage for the family to remain in the house. There was minimal damage to their personal property, however.
Firefighters estimate $50,000 in damage to the house owned by Mid-American Property Management.
Nebraska City, Neb. —
