A lightning strike sparked a utility pole fire in Maricopa’s Santa Rosa Springs neighborhood, leaving more than 1,400 ...

A lightning bolt left a Walpole family stunned and shaken.Brian Trupiano was putting his kids to bed around 8:30 p.m. on<a ...

A powerful electrical storm crackled across Clinton County on Monday, delivering more than 1,200 cloud-to-ground lightning ...

Video sent in by an Eyewitness News viewer shows a utility pole and transformer on fire just after a lightning strike off Citrus Avenue, near a shopping center, around 9 p.m.

A lightning strike during the 5 p.m. news caused KFDX to lose power for several hours. Oncor arrived to work on the power pole right behind the TV station. While off the air, we did our best to ...

A power outage impacting thousands of people in Ames was caused by a lightning strike to a power pole, according to the city.The outage affected portions of west Ames, according to police.

JACKSON, S.C. (WJBF) – Fire crews in Aiken County responded to a lightning fire. According to Aiken County dispatch, lightning struck a power pole in front of 173 Grandview Drive in Jackson ...

However, at the FPL lab, the lightning strike hitting a power pole is man-made. "As comes with the price of paradise, there's a lot of natural factors that impact the electric grid every single ...

Claim: Lightning strikes have killed people who were talking on the telephone. Status: True. Origins: Lightning ranks second only to floods in storm-related deaths in the United States. On average ...

Today’s most common anti-lightning tech is the classic lightning rod, a meters-long metal pole rooted to the ground. The metal’s conductivity lures in lightning that might otherwise strike ...

One megavolt — a unit of electric potential equal to 1 million volts — is enough to power 8,000 household outlets. Researchers use that power to simulate a strike of lightning on a power transmission ...