Itโs not often you hear a firefighter tell you they were scared. But thatโs exactly what a Cy-Fair Firefighter shared after riding out a tornado in the garage of a home that was just struck by lightning. Thatโs a lot to unfold in the first line of the story. So, letโs 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 Departmentโs Station 11 was called to the home after lightning reportedly struck the home. โI heard this big lightning and you had to run in the house because it felt like it was right there,โ 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 were about to hop back in the fire truck when they noticed something in the air. Their instincts led them to seek shelter rather than return to the station.
โWe saw a wind coming one directionโฆ then everything else, all trees, branches started flying in the other way,โ recalled Ferenz. For John Toussaint, a firefighter and EMT with the Cy-Fair Fire Department, the experience was unprecedented.
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