It was as real as a jag of lightning, or an electrical fire.

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Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.

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The cause of the fire is under investigation, but authorities believe lightning is to blame.

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Thursday's fire was one of three believed to have been started by lightning in Dorset.

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More than 750 firefighters and support personnel were working in Oregon and Nevada to corral the 418, 235-acre Holloway Fire, the largest of the Western wildfires ignited by a lightning strike on August 5.

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