Storm damages Loxley neighborhood — car catches fire, tree crushes home

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LOXLEY, Ala. (WKRG) — Strong thunderstorms caused severe damage across Baldwin County Thursday morning. In one Loxley neighborhood off of County Road 56, the people who live there told WKRG News 5 things got dangerous very quickly.
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This is what one Loxley family saw right outside their front door moments after the storm.
'It came out of nowhere,' Loxley resident Axel Torres said. 'It came out of the blue, you know. I was at work and my brother called me, said the car was on fire.'
A fallen power line went up in flames, burning straight towards one of the family member's blue Mustang parked in the driveway.
Another family in the neighborhood saw a different kind of damage to their home once the storm cleared out.
'I was not expecting this,' Loxley resident, Kathy Volkman, said. 'I was laying in bed and my husband just started screaming, tornado, tornado!'
She tells us that soon after that, she heard the loud crash of a tree falling on the back of her home.
'It took a little bit of the edge of the roof off,' Volkman said. 'Then we heard that there's fire down here and everybody's power went out except for ours.'
Many of the other homes in the neighborhood saw similar damage from fallen trees and limbs.
Power crews along with the Robertsdale Volunteer Fire Department and the Loxley Police department were on scene in the neighborhood for hours working to repair the damages after the storm.
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There were no reported injuries in the area.
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