Lightning Starts Fire on Cape Cod

Local news No one was injured, according to firefighters. Lightning during a severe thunderstorm sparked a house fire in East Sandwich Monday afternoon, fire officials said.The Sandwich Fire Department responded to the report of a fire at 17 Mill Road around 12:55 p.m., according to a news release. "The fire was caused by lightning during a violent storm that passed through the city," the department said. According to authorities, the occupants of the house were able to get out of the house with their dog, helped by their neighbors, and reported the fire. Damage from the fire was limited to the exterior of the house and electrical components inside.A second house across the road suffered minor electrical damage from lightning, fire officials said. No one was injured.Severe storms swept across southern New England on Monday, dropping golf-ball-sized hail in some places, according to the National Weather Service. Boston.com Today Sign up to get the latest headlines delivered to your inbox every morning. var consent="grant"; /* The above code is parsing the JSON data from the local storage and storing it in a variable. */ const onetrustStorageConsent = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem( 'consent_one_trust_bdc' ) ); if ( ( onetrustStorageConsent !== null ) ) { /* Checking to see if the user has consented to the use of cookies. * If they have not, it is deleting the cookie. * This will comment for now, until further notice. */ //if ( onetrustStorageConsent.C0002 === false ) { // document.cookie="_fbp=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC; path=/; domain=.boston.com"; //} /* Checking if the user has given consent for the cookie C0002. * If the user has given consent, the variable consent will be set to 'grant'. * If the user has not given consent,the variable consent will be set to 'revoke'. * Documentation */ if ( onetrustStorageConsent.C0002 !== true ) { consent="revoke"; } } !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', ' fbq('consent', consent); fbq('init', '989222871864976'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); var consent="grant"; /* The above code is parsing the JSON data from the local storage and storing it in a variable. */ const onetrustStorageConsent = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem( 'consent_one_trust_bdc' ) ); /* Checking to see if the user has consented to the use of cookies. * If they have not, it is deleting the cookie. * This will comment for now, until further notice. */ //if ( onetrustStorageConsent.C0002 === false ) { // document.cookie="_fbp=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC; path=/; domain=.boston.com"; //} /* Checking if the user has given consent for the cookie C0002. * If the user has given consent, the variable consent will be set to 'grant'. * If the user has not given consent,the variable consent will be set to 'revoke'. * Documentation */ if ( ( onetrustStorageConsent !== null ) && (onetrustStorageConsent.C0002 !== true ) ) { consent="revoke"; } !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)} ;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',' fbq('consent', consent); fbq('init', '813236348753005'); fbq('track', "PageView");