Lightning in Tooele County, Utah
Lightning August 23, 2000 · Tooele County, Utah
2
Deaths
4
Injuries
What the National Weather Service wrote
A 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old man were struck and killed by lightning while fighting a fire on the north end of the Stansbury Mountains. The lightning strike also injured 4 other members of the Flame-N-Go's firefighting unit from the Utah State Prison's Lone Peak facility. The leader of the crew was not struck, but suffered from extreme shock.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5177622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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