Fire crews are revealing new details about what happened during the devastating September Lightning Complex Fire and how stretched resources were when the lightning storm swept across the state. Over a two-day period, 26,000 lightning strikes sparked 157 fires across California. Of the 157 fires, 21 of them made up the fast-moving September Lightning Complex fire, which tore through the town of Chinese Camp. | CBS13 CBS Sacramento

Blinding Lightning Strike Stuns Rural Community Boone County, MO — December 4, 2025 A rural Missouri neighborhood was jolted awake late Wednesday night when an enormous lightning strike—described by witnesses as “the brightest flash they’d ever seen”—hit just yards from a farmhouse driveway, all of it captured in a dramatic security-camera recording. The footage shows a calm, rain-soaked field moments before the night sky explodes into pure white. For nearly two full seconds, the landscape disap