Lightning-sparked fires rage across California

A burning home is seen along Cherry Glen Road during the LNU Lighting Complex Fire on the outskirts of Vacaville, California, August 19, 2020. Nearly 11,000 lightning strikes were documented during a 72-hour stretch this week in the heaviest spate of…more


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Thursday, August 20, 2020

A burning home is seen along Cherry Glen Road during the LNU Lighting Complex Fire on the outskirts of Vacaville, California, August 19, 2020. Nearly 11,000 lightning strikes were documented during a 72-hour stretch this week in the heaviest spate of thunderstorms to hit California in over a decade, igniting 367 individual fires. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

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