Severe Storms Keep Firefighters Busy: Lightning Strikes, Trees Down, Utility Worker Injured

Montgomery County firefighters were busy on Wednesday evening as severe thunderstorms rolled across the area and lightning lit up the sky for about two hours.

In the city of Gaithersburg, a lightning strike ignited a fire that destroyed a single family house in the Washingtonian Woods community.

During the stormy weather, there were reports of trees and wires down and there were power outages.

According to Fire and Rescue spokesperson Pete Piringer, one utility worker was seriously injured while repairing a transformer in Leisure World.

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, below, Piringer tells us more about the numerous calls for service on Sept. 7th:

(930p) Leisure World – a utility worker was 'shocked' working on a transformer (on ground) following power outage pic.twitter.com/xiqgdTOv9q

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 8, 2016

10419 Boswell Lane, Potomac, @TK9582 advises large tree down, Road completely CLOSED – treat ALL wires as if 'LIVE' pic.twitter.com/TbxrsXuw7f

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 8, 2016

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