{"id":139151,"date":"2018-06-10T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/family-devastated-after-lightning-strike-at-home-near-lenzie\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T16:08:23","slug":"family-devastated-after-lightning-strike-at-home-near-lenzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/family-devastated-after-lightning-strike-at-home-near-lenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"Family &#8216;devastated&#8217; after lightning strike at home near Lenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"House after lightning strike\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/D1D4\/production\/_101961735_mediaitem101961242.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      The roof is completely gone from the house in Woodilee after the lighting strike                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A man whose house was set on fire by a lightning strike in East Dunbartonshire has told BBC Scotland his family are &quot;devastated&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Malcolm was watching TV with his wife and two children at their home in Woodilee when the roof burst into flames on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They thought it was a power cut and only realised the property was on fire when neighbours alerted them.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Malcolm said the damage means they have &quot;lost the whole house&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures on social media showed flames leaping from the roof of the property.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene at about 17:45 on Saturday. No-one was injured.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Ami Atwal<figcaption>Image caption                                      Pictures on social media showed flames coming from the roof of the building after the strike on Saturday                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      The roof burst into flames on Saturday evening                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Malcolm, a surveyor, said: &quot;A neighbour knocked on the door and told us to get out as the house was on fire.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said the damage was extensive, with everything upstairs in the property &quot;gone&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &quot;We&#039;ve lost the whole house.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      The family did not realise the house was on fire until neighbours came to their door                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      Mr Malcolm said the blaze meant they had &quot;lost the whole house&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The family had only moved into the property seven months ago and are now staying temporarily with a neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>The lightning strike came as parts of Scotland were struck by extreme weather including hailstorms, torrential downpours and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @cheekiochimp                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lightning strike in Woodilee village, Kirkintilloch!! \u26a1\u26a1\u26a1 pic.twitter.com\/pATIeN4a4W<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ami Atwal (@cheekiochimp) June 9, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @cheekiochimp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption The roof is completely gone from the house in Woodilee after the lighting strike A man whose house was set on fire by a lightning strike in East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}