CEDAR HILLS — The Augustus family wasn't home when a lightning bolt struck their front yard, igniting a 15-foot evergreen tree. An intense storm rolled over northern Utah County Wednesday afternoon, ...

A security camera in north central Wisconsin captured the dramatic moment when a bolt of lightning struck a white pine tree on Sept. 9, causing a fire that prompted neighbors to spring into action. A ...

FEASTERVILLE, Pennsylvania -- A swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people. Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim ...

Jeryll Hadley and a friend were trying to set up a tent over a campfire along California’s Gualala River 25 years ago, their hands on the metal center pole, when lightning struck the tree next to them ...

Lightning is among the dazzling forces of nature, which is beautiful yet terrifying and can strike out of nowhere and change lives in an instant. Most of us have seen lightning storms from the safety ...

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