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When I was in my early teens when my family and I heard an extremely close lightning strike. I think we were sitting outside and saw the lightning but didn't see where it hit
I looked over and realized it had struck a tree a few houses up
"The tree is on fire!" Mom, Dad, and myself ran downstairs; mom drove us up the road with shovels in the back and Dad and I hopped out
A couple neighbors showed up just about the same time as us. One had a blanket and was trying to beat it out which was working on the grass but it was fanning the flames that were already starting up the trunk. I had to tell them to stop and encouraged people to throw dirt on the trunk which thankfully worked
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Please don't ask why no one had a fire extinguisher, I was young and I didn't think about it. Or maybe someone brought one but didn't deploy it. I think the immediacy of the situation led people to grab the tools they knew where they were and maybe people didn't think about using an extinguisher on nature?