VIDEO: A family was inside their home Sunday (June 23) night when lightning hit their house, starting a fire that almost burned their house to the ground. Luckily, they were all able to safely make it out in time. “I was sitting inside watching TV and heard a loud boom and a bright flash. I looked outside and saw smoke and realized their house was on fire,” Justin Millican. Millican is a volunteer firefighter who lives nearby and ran over to make sure everyone was okay. He said the family was able to make it out along with their pets and some possessions. “It had been raining, a bad thunderstorm and wind and rain and there was a lot of lightning," Millican said. "At that point, the lightning struck the house and there it just kind of engulfed."