Crime & Safety
Storm-Related Fire in Cobb
No one was injured in the incident in a neighborhood off Bells Ferry Road.
Stormy weather that swept through metro Atlanta overnight is to blame for a small house fire in Northeast Cobb.
About 12:03 a.m. Monday, lightning caused a fire at a home in the 160 block of Junction Court, said Denell Boyd, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman.
The fire was confined to the roof and there was minimal damage. "Homeowner was able to stay in residence," Boyd wrote in an email to Patch.
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The house fire was not the only storm-related incident in Northeast Cobb. About 2 a.m. Monday, a large oak tree crashed through the master bedroom and another bedroom of a home on Jesica Way, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Elsewhere in Cobb, hundreds of residents of the Pine Haven Mobile Home Park in Marietta are stranded after a bridge was washed away by heavy rains.
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The bridge is the only way in and out of the mobile home park.
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