Lightning Strikes Oilfield Battery, Starts Fire With Thick Black Smoke in Sask.

Lightning Strikes Oilfield Battery, Starts Fire With Thick Black Smoke in Sask.
An idled pump jack and a tank battery in a file photo. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Marnie Cathcart
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Lightning struck an oilfield battery about 12 miles from the town of Sloughton, Saskatchewan, resulting in thick plumes of black smoke for a number of hours.

Photos posted on social media show flickering flames on the ground and near buildings and tanks, plus dark black and grey smoke filling the sky in a field after the fire on June 26 in the afternoon. Nearby oil and natural gas tanks also caught fire.
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