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Updated: Lightning Strikes Near Oakley School: Child Taken To Hospital
A student at an Oakley school was taken to a hospital after the school was hit by lightning Thursday morning.
UPDATED 2:45PM-
OAKLEY - A child at an Oakley school was taken to a hospital this morning after being shaken up by a lightning strike near the school, according to the Oakley Union Elementary School District's superintendent's office.
A dispatcher with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District originally said that lightning struck at the school.
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Fire crews responded at 9:19 a.m. to O'Hara Park Middle School at 1100 O'Hara Ave. on a report of the lightning strike.
One minute later, fire crews responded to a home nearby on O'Hara Court that was hit by lightning, according to the fire dispatcher.
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Three people affected by the two strikes were encouraged to seek medical care, but only the one person did.
Another lightning strike reported at 9:18 a.m. at Wilbur Avenue and Bridgehead Road damaged a transformer and started a small grass fire, the dispatcher said.
The Wilbur Avenue and Bridgehead Road intersection is near state Highway 160 and the Antioch Bridge.
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