Fifteen people were injured by lightning two seriously on Saturday afternoon in Azerailles, Meurthe-et-Moselle where the 6th edition of the Musique du Vieux Canal festival was being held. “The lightning struck at several places during the music festival of Musique du Vieux Canal in Azerailles” south of Nancy. The stormy episode occurred at about 16 pm and took the public “by […]
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A Woman in her fifties died after being struck by lightning on Friday morning on a beach in the island of Oléron (Charente-Maritime). She had gone fishing on foot. A woman was struck by lightning on Friday morning on the island of Oléron. On holiday she was with a party who were fishing with her husband on […]
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Ten teenagers and their instructor were injured by lightning on Monday 7th August, in the early evening at a recreation center in Vienne. A 15 year old was on Monday night in a “very serious condition”. A youth group was hit Monday night by lightning at a recreation center of Lathus-Saint-Rémy (Vienne), about sixty kilometers south-east […]
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WEATHER: Meteo France has issued an Orange alert bulletin for storms in Hauts-de-France for the May 29 … The stormy period has already begun in Avesnois and in Aisne, and goes on a south-west / north-east. The agency Meteo France placed the entire region Hauts-de-France in orange alert until midnight on Monday, due to the arrival of […]
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WEATHER: This flash of lightning in France “lasted continuously for 7.74 seconds” … Seven seconds, 74 hundredths. Most of the lightning that lasted the longest in the world, which struck on the 30th August, 2012 in the southeast of France, was approved on Friday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). New #lightning records established in Oklahoma, […]
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Thursday night, a house in Coudray, was hit by lightning. There are no injuries. Twenty firemen were at the scene on Thursday night, from 8.30pm to 2 am to extinguish a fire in a house, rue des Cerisiers, at Coudray. At around 8.30pm, the family house was struck by lightning. The fire started in the attic, which was destroyed. The […]
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About 120 faithful gathered for the funeral in the church of Rincq, when lightning has struck the steeple … Terrible coincidence at Aire-sur-la-Lys. One person was electrocuted and seven people slightly injured by the lightning strike which occurred at a church on the 2nd March, just before the start of a funeral ceremony. The accident, […]
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It was around 11pm that the alarm was raised yesterday. A fire broke out in a house Riaillé. The damage is severe. A house in the municipality of Riaillé in the north of the department, was hit by lightning yesterday. The fire started around 11 pm and the fire damage is very intense despite the rapid […]
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