Lightning blamed for Rainbow City Apartment fire

Lightning sparked an apartment fire early Tuesday morning that displaced seven families in Rainbow City. Fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. during a thunderstorm.

Officials say all seven families made it out of the building without any injuries. At first, residents thought it was a small fire that could be contained. But it spread quickly.

The Red Cross  is providing hotel rooms to the families for the next two nights.

 Dogwood Apartments will have a place for each family to stay after that as they are already preparing new apartments 

on the site for the families to move into.