Lightning Sparks Calif. Fires
Fire engines, mostly from Southern California, pour into a subdivision for structure protection as the Empire fire grows in Butte County, Calif., Tuesday, June 24, 2008. An electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California -- a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to parched forests and grasslands.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: AP/Chico Enterprise-Record, Barbour
