LOS ANGELES — Storms spit lightning and unleashed downpours Friday across warm and humid Southern California, causing widespread power outages and injuring a man.
In San Bernardino County, a 50-year-old man was injured by a lightning strike on a crane at a construction site next to a hospital in Fontana. It wasn’t known whether the man was touching the crane or was near it, but he was thrown hard to the ground by the strike, said county Fire Department spokeswoman Tracey Martinez.
Southern California’s thunderstorms were being fueled by subtropical moisture pulled into the region by a low-pressure area to the southwest, the National Weather Service said.
The unstable weather came on the heels of a heat wave that saw downtown Los Angeles reach 113 degrees Monday, the highest temperature ever posted there in 133 years of record- keeping. The Associated Press
