LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Fire officials say three people are being treated for minor injuries after being struck by lightning at a Laconia barbecue.
Capt.
Kirk Beattie says three people in their early 20s were standing near a
grill at a residential barbecue Wednesday evening when lightning struck the ground nearby. They were taken to a hospital.
Beattie says several buildings in Laconia were struck by lightning and a tree fell onto a house on Wednesday evening, but no injuries were reported in those strikes.
Margaret
Curtis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says a line
of severe thunderstorms moved in from Canada shortly after 5 p.m. She
says it cut through a 70-mile-long swath of New Hampshire, knocking down trees and power lines.
