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Lightning lit up the skies in the Central Valley on Wednesday night, in turn, leaving many people associated with weather and fire very busy. National Weather Service meteorologist David Spector, who works out of Hanford, said, "[There were] a lot of lightning, several hundred strikes were reported in the central and …

An inferno spiraling into the night sky above Fresno, visible for miles. And hours later, those hundreds of utility poles were still on fire. "That fire quickly grew from the original 4 to 6 piles to about, I think we’re up to 25 piles," Fresno Fire PIO Pete Martinez said. …