Midnight home fires practically simultaneous

Fire fighters from the Walhalla and Westminster areas fought separate house fires almost simultaneously during the midnight hour Saturday over the holiday weekend.  The first call came from a home fire on Walhalla’s East Wesley Street.  A nearby lightning strike is thought to be the culprit.  While there some of the fire fighters were re-assigned to the Westminster area to stop a fire under the crawl space to a home on Lin Ollie Lane near the Toccoa Highway.  No injuries reported in either fire.