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Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks.

The Washington Monument reopened Sunday after a lightning strike earlier this month damaged electrical systems inside. News4’s Derrick Ward reports live from the foot of the monument.

The Washington Monument was closed after a dramatic lightning strike during Aug. 15’s thunderstorms, video from Viralhog shows.

Repairs to the monument’s electronic access system were ongoing on Tuesday after the obelisk was hit by lightning Sunday, the National Park Service said.

The Washington Monument will be closed Monday after it was struck by lightning a day earlier, officials say.  The National Park Service shared stunning video posted to Twitter showing a bolt of lightning connecting with the point of the monument.  The yellowish night sky turns blue as lightning flashes around the National Mall, the 12-second video shows. Then a...

A camera inside a Florida man’s truck captured a bolt of lightning striking a nearby palm tree – and it wasn’t even raining. Jonathan Moore was working Monday afternoon in Lutz, a suburb of Tampa, when the lightning bolt struck a tree about 75-feet away. A loud boom can be heard in the video moments before the strike, which...