Chris Lawrence is standing
by live in Burlison
with the very latest Chris.
Well is he. I want to give you an idea of
just how strong these winds were and what
it was like to live through it all right.
You see that RV right there where it is
now last night that RV was right here
and a 17 year old girl named Brittany
Deaton was trapped inside at her mom
was telling her there tornadoes coming,
but she couldn't get out because
there was all of this debris pressed
up against the door.
Her dad runs out of the house.
He manages to pry the debris out.
They start running away trying to get
back to the main house in the wind.
Knocks the RV over toppings on
top of them and then just keeps
going until it ends up right there.
I mean that is just one story
that's still in the hospital right
now that he is going to be OK.
It's pretty banged up.
He's hurt really bad,
but he is going to be OK and that is just
really one story that we have heard out here.
Now I want to give you a
sort of a big picture look.
Let's take that shot we got
earlier from HD Chopper 8.
That's going to give you more of a bird's eye
view of exactly what has been happening here,
so look.
We have seen homes with roofs blown off.
We've seen tree limbs and
debris just about everywhere.
A lot of the cars and garages
also took a big hit and we've also
learned what happened in Westlake.
A lightning strike sparked the house
fire there near Broken Bend Drive.
The good thing is everybody
was able to make it out,
including I should say, everyone pets.
One firefighter was injured,
but we've learned that firefighter
is going to be OK now firefighters.
Also believe Lightning set a much bigger
fire at a pallet yard in Alvarado
that's about 9 miles from here,
and that's where my colleague,
Tiffany Liu is and Tiffany.
I understand this fire is
still burning right now.
Yeah, absolutely Chris.
And it has been burning all day
and could for several more days.
It is hard to believe that one lightning
strike can takedown a business that's
been in the works for 18 years.
I just want to show you
guys right here behind me.
You can see there are still
several hot spots.
There are firefighters that are working
behind this metal fence right here.
We're kind of off at a distance
so that we could be safe here,
but it started before 10:00
o'clock last night.
It is contained,
but like I mentioned could take
several days to put out fully.
A fire alone can be devastating.
I've experienced fires before,
but nothing so personal
but adds strong winds, a tornado
warning, and a lot of hail.
The blanket of hail thousands
of hail balls and they hurt
for Lynn *****. That's when
adrenaline Trump's fear.
That's when all heck broke loose around 9:45
Monday night, he noticed flames
coming from the pallet yard next door.
The gentleman next door had taken
his family to a different location
and I looked at his house and
noticed it was on fire in the back.
Lynn said the high winds made the fire worse.
That's just intensified.
The fire in the pellet
yard even that much more.
He and his family were able to stop the
fire from taking the neighbors house.
We were so concentrated on the fire that
the tornado didn't even. Phases, but
the mom and pop pallet company which has
been in Alvarado for 18 years, is destroyed.
I just wish him well in their recovery and
we'll be here to help him if we can that
evening. Lynn thought his own home
would be gone if not by flames then
by the storm he credits Rendon
firefighters for saving his property.
At one point I said I don't know,
you know if we're going to be
able to save it and then a foam
truck pulls up and like spray foam
everywhere and that's that's what
saved my house otherwise would
be looking at a Palo rebel here.
A day later, though,
the wood is still smoldering.
Next door, Lynn and his daughter
Shelby are feeling grateful.
It's wood. It's made to burn,
so it has always been a fear of mine.
She spent a lot of her childhood
here and drove in from Fort
Worth to check on her family.
If it came down to it,
we could have replaced the
House and I couldn't replace
him or my cousin or my great
uncle that also lives here.
So she calls it gods work.
We had guardian angels
looking over them last night.
You guys, what you are seeing right
here are firefighters continuing to
work hard to try and put out these hot
spots as the fire continues to burn.
Here at this pallet yard,
you know I spoke to the owners,
daughter of this company and she
says they are not ready to talk,
which is absolutely understandable.
But she does say that her dad has
owned this business for 18 years
now devastating to see it like.