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Lightning Strike Sets 16 Oil Tanks

LOCKHART, TX – Sixteen oil tanks caught fire outside of Lockhart after a lightning strike hit early Wednesday morning, according to emergency personnel in the area.

Mid-County Fire and Rescue Department Chief Edward Hanna noted that when personnel arrived on scene in the 1200 block of Young Lane south of Lockhart, all sixteen oil tanks were ablaze. Hanna said the department contacted the National Weather Service for a lightning study and no one was injured in the fire.

Witness and KXAN viewer Paul Hodge called in the report around 7:16 a.m just after the blaze began.

Hanna said dispatch received the call at 7:18 a.m. Hodge said by 9 a.m. the fire had been knocked down and was mostly just smoke.

Local Meteorologist David Yeomans confirmed there was a lightning strike in that area just south of Young Lane southwest of Seawillow, Texas. This strike was just one of more than 6,000 lightning strikes in the area Wednesday morning as severe thunderstorms moved across the Lockhart area.

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