SAN ANTONIO – A destructive fire caused by lightning has left eight Northeast Side families struggling to rebuild their lives. 14 adults, 3 children displaced by overnight fire sparked by lightningThe flames that erupted around 2 a.m. Tuesday destroyed an entire building at the Villa Rodriguez apartments, located in the 3400 block of Salado Creek Drive. “Lightning struck, apparently, the roof and on our arrival the fire was through the roof,” said Battalion Chief Will Pritchett with the San Antonio Fire Department. “It was pretty advanced.”Firefighters had to use a ladder truck to extinguish flames that burned through the roof at the Villa Rodriguez apartments. “It sounded like a bomb went off when the lightning hit the top of the building.”Venegas happened to be wide awake, watching television at the time.