Lightning strike blamed for Brandon fire that drives 12 families from apartments - St. Petersburg Times: "BRANDON — Early Sunday morning, Josh Ettling counted the seconds between lightning and thunder. One Mississippi, two Mississippi — he couldn't even get through that without being cut off by a boom.
Ettling, 23, wanted to go back to bed. He could put his chocolate Labrador, Nico, under the covers to hide the frightened dog's eyes so they both could sleep through the storm.
But a light switch zapped his fingers when he flipped it. Minutes later, he smelled smoke. Outside the second-floor bedroom blinds, all he saw was orange.
'My apartment's on fire,' he told a 911 dispatcher. Ettling says he was put on hold, then advised: Get out."
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