Courtleigh's agents said the T. U. was spreading like a lightning fire on a dry prairie.

The church was almost destroyed by a lightning fire in 1624.

And in the distance was the lash of lightning fire, a distant rumble of thunder.

The terrain became a rocky and barren slope again, and Bolan saw signs of recent lightning fire.

The original commissary, which faced the railroad, was destroyed by a lightning fire in the 1930s.

"Natural burn" met its first real test in the dry year of 1979, when a number of lightning fires went along unmolested.

(The present mill building was built in 1848 after a lightning fire destroyed the original.)

A lightning fire had burned away the brush and we found a trail we'd never seen before.

A lightning fire struck the mall in 2007 causing minimum damage.

Water management was more critical, lightning fires more prevalent, weather more extreme, rainfall less predictable.