CYPRESS, Texas – It’s not often you hear a firefighter tell you they were scared. But that’s exactly what a Cy-Fair Firefighter shared after riding out a tornado in the garage of a home that was just struck by lightning.

That’s a lot to unfold in the first line of the story. So, let’s talk about why the firefighters were at the home on Lake Riata Lane in the Barker Lake neighborhood of Cypress in the first place.

A crew from Cy-Fair Fire Department’s Station 11 was called to the home after lightning reportedly struck the home.

“I heard this big lightning and you had to run in the house because it felt like it was right there,” said Emil Ferenz, the Cypress resident whose home was hit by the lightning bolt.

The firefighters investigated some smoke in his attic, but found no fire. They

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