Gary Bourgeois said he heard a loud crash at 4 a.m. on July 12 that woke him up from a deep sleep. He quickly realized that crash was a lightning strike that set his home on fire.
Without hesitating, Gary said he started trying to control the flames.
“I ran out here and went outside and grabbed the hose and came back and started fighting the fire,” Bourgeois said.
Bourgeois said he didn’t call 911 right away, but instead, he focused on putting the fire out himself.
“When I took off out of here, I didn’t think about the phone. I thought about the fire,” Bourgeois said.
He said the fire burned so hot, so quickly, it ignited bullets that were sitting on top of his fridge.
“When I came back inside from getting the hose I heard these noises. I had 22 bullets flying in here - pow, pow, pow - because that’s how hot the fire was already. I had to open the door just a little bit and stick the hose inside to make it stop,” Gary said.
It wasn’t until almost three hours later, a neighbor says they drove by on thier way to work and saw the flames and smoke coming out of Gary’s home. The neighbor called 911, and fire trucks rushed to help Gary fight the flames.
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