Two wildfires in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, possibly sparked by lightning early Thursday, have led to the evacuation of the park as firefighters respond to the blazes.

DC Fire and EMS said that someone was injured by lightning in Northwest D.C. as storms passed through the area Wednesday.

The Tampa Bay Lightning receive a grade on their 2025 NHL Draft class following a chaotic week of NHL Free Agency.

Rebekah Prevost was hit by a lightning strike while running from her vehicle to her home that afternoon. She did not make it inside before she was hit and knocked out. Prevost said she was bloody, dazed, and had temporary memory loss.

In Phoenixville, Chester County, the situation was far more serious. The rectory at St. Basil the Great Parish caught fire. Staff said a lightning strike caused the fire. In Douglassville, Berks County, a tree was uprooted and landed on a house, but as of Tuesday night, injuries weren't reported.

In a process called bioluminescence, lightning bugs produce light through a chemical reaction in their body. Unlike a lightbulb that creates heat in the reaction, a lightning bug produces a “cold light”, where the reaction doesn’t generate a ton of heat. The two main reasons why fireflies light up are for protection and attraction.

A rare and visually stunning electrical phenomenon has been captured from space, offering one of the clearest views yet of an event that most people on Earth will never see. Only July 3, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers aboard the International Space Station photographed a gigantic jet-a massive bolt of electrical discharge erupting from a thunderstorm and shooting upward toward space.

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