A woman was hit by lightning Saturday afternoon as she watched a Little League baseball game in Highlands Ranch, Littleton Fire and Rescue reported.
Though her injuries were not life-threatening, she was taken to an area hospital, a fire department spokeswoman said, refusing to say which hospital or to offer any other information about the woman.
The woman was sitting under a tent — which could have been a canopy — at about 4:15 p.m. while watching the baseball game at Falcon Park, a popular location just behind the Highlands Ranch Recreation Center north of where South University Boulevard intersects East Wildcat Reserve Parkway.
The National Weather Service estimates the odds of being hit once by lightning in the U.S. during a lifetime at 1 in 13,000. About 31 Americans die from lightning strikes each year and another 280 are injured.
