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JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Lightning is believed to have sparked a fire at a townhouse in Jupiter Monday afternoon. A 4-by-4-foot gaping hole in the roof was left behind. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue ...

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the lightning rod, and for some 270 years it has remained the main tool for protecting buildings from destructive and potentially deadly thunderbolts. But ...

Lightning rods (and the accompanying protection system) are designed to protect a house or building from a direct lightning strike and, in particular, a lightning-initiated fire. Note that lightning ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Triad home is a total loss after a lightning strike hit it. By the time firefighters got to the home on Pheasant Lane in Winston-Salem, flames were coming out of the rooftop. This ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global lightning rod market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 8% during the forecast period, according to Technavio’s latest report. In this report, Technavio ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

Lightning-sparked fires are almost too common when storms roll through, but there is a well-known way to prevent them: lightning rods. But why aren’t more people taking advantage of the 250-year-old ...

Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...

Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...