Lightning from Tuesday morning storms produced one Lawrence house fire

Storms that rolled through Douglas County early Tuesday morning produced lightning strikes that caused one house fire in Lawrence, local officials announced Wednesday.

The fire in the 100 block of Lawrence Avenue was not large enough that the residents of the house were displaced, nor were they injured in the fire, the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department said via a release Wednesday morning. However, one firefighter was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Crews received a report of a fire at 6:18 a.m. on Tuesday. By 6:22 a.m. crews were on the scene and had found fire in the roof and the eaves of the home. Crews had the fire under control by 6:38 a.m., according to the report.

The fire occurred during a period of heavy thunderstorms, and the department determined that a lightning strike caused the fire.

The fire was one of 28 weather-related calls — many of them electrical hazards — that the department responded to during the early morning hours of Tuesday, when a tornado warning and subsequent thunderstorms rolled through the area shortly after midnight.