Crazy odds: Lightning starts house fire in Brentwood Lightning lit up the skies Wednesday night throughout the Bay Area, and firefighters in Brentwood said one such strike caused a house fire when the ...

Lightning strikes are some of the most awesome demonstrations of power on Earth. We’ve all seen trees, mountains and skyscrapers struck. But if a car is struck by lightning, then what happens?

A system of unstable air that created an overnight lightning show with thousands of strikes from the Bay Area to the Central Valley steered course toward the Sierra Nevada by Tuesday afternoon, making ...

Lightning lit up the skies Wednesday night throughout the Bay Area, and firefighters in Brentwood said one such strike caused a house fire when the electricity hit a weather vane on top of the roof.