{"id":11647,"date":"2015-07-14T07:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11647"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:04:43","slug":"video-postal-worker-neighbor-save-the-day-after-lightning-sparks-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/14\/video-postal-worker-neighbor-save-the-day-after-lightning-sparks-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal worker, neighbor save the day after lightning sparks house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Beach, Va. \u2013 Two days later, Corlis Spencer says it\u2019s still difficult to talk about what happened.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was just frightening. It was hard to collect your thoughts, I\u2019ll just tell you like that,\u201d says Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>A lightning bolt crashed into the attic, igniting a fire as Corlis and her husband Ronald were inside.<\/p>\n<p>It happened Saturday as strong thunderstorms rolled through Virginia Beach into the Spencers\u2019 Wesleyan Chase neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>They say they did not even smell smoke when the fire happened.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning hit, striking sideways into the Spencers\u2019 attic while they were in the back bedroom. They had no idea what was happening until a postal worker knocked on their door telling them their house was on fire. <a href=\"http:\/\/wtkr.com\/2015\/07\/13\/postal-worker-neighbor-save-the-day-after-lightning-sparks-house-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script height=\"360px\" width=\"475px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=MxdnU2djrZZTWrC8h8lz400byI4wx1Ko&#038;pbid=55ce3a06495346ddb20768902d1e991c\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fire-damage-virgina-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11648\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fire-damage-virgina-beach.jpg\" alt=\"fire damage virgina beach\" width=\"673\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fire-damage-virgina-beach.jpg 673w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fire-damage-virgina-beach-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Beach, Va. \u2013 Two days later, Corlis Spencer says it\u2019s still difficult to talk about what happened. \u201cIt was just frightening. It was hard to collect your thoughts, I\u2019ll just tell you like that,\u201d says Spencer. A lightning bolt crashed into the attic, igniting a fire as Corlis and her husband Ronald were inside. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}