Firefighters work at the scene where lightning possibly struck a house in the Paradise Pointe neighborhood in Port Aransas before dawn today. (Staff photo © 2025 by Regina Love.)
Police and firefighters were out at 4 a.m. today (Thursday, Sept. 25) in the 400 block of Paradise Pointe in Port Aransas, where the attic of a house filled with smoke, possibly due to a lightning strike.
No injuries were reported. Everyone in the house was safely evacuated, said Adam Maldonado, chief of the Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department.
Heat and smoke were detected in the attic, but no flames could be seen, Maldonado said.
Firefighters had to cut a hole in the front of the house to get the smoke out.
Maldonado said lightning may have been the culprit, but he wasn’t positive.
Corpus Christi, Ingleside and Flour Bluff fire departments were also at the scene for backup.
The house, a short-term rental, is uninhabitable, said Regina Love, the general manager of Sway by AvantStay, the company that manages the rental.
“It will be unlisted until the owner and his insurance company can come and take a look and get repairs made,” said Love.
The STR company provided the renters another home to stay in.
Thunder and lightning were abundant this morning in Port Aransas as a front rolled through and dumped what one rain gauge in town indicated was about 2 inches of rain.
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