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Lightning strike causes fire at apartment on South Harrells Ferry Road, fire officials say
Posted 4:00 PM 7/8/2026 by Adam Burruss
BATON ROUGE - Fire officials say a lightning strike caused a fire at an apartment on South Harrells Ferry Road.
Officials with the East Side Fire Department said that they arrived to a working fire on the second floor of an apartment complex at 16000 South Harrells Ferry Road.
No one was injured as a result of the fire. No other information was immediately available.
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