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Storms spark wildfires in Southern Oregon
I'm putting this in local news as it's local to me. 
| Quote: | Hundreds of lightning strikes and thunder rolls rattled the South Coast overnight, as an usually violent summer storm crawled across the region.
The storm caused momentary power outages, sparked wildfires and delayed a commercial airline flight at North Bend.
At the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport, Weather Observer Tom Richmond said Horizon Flight 193 was pushed back 30 minutes this morning because of the lightning.
“They don’t take off in that kind of a situation,” Richmond said.
One-tenth of an inch of rain sprinkled the area starting at midnight through mid-morning. There were numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, including one that hit the airport’s new terminal and caused a brief outage at 6 a.m.
Firefighters throughout southern Oregon have been working round the clock to douse and search for fires ignited during the weekend, a Coos Forest Protective Association press release said. CFPA firefighters snuffed three fires and continued to search for others across the agency’s 1.5 million-acre district. Close by, the Alder Creek Fire, just north of Bandon, and the Lone Pine Lane Fire, three miles east of Coquille, each burned less than acre. CFPA also sent firefighters to help the Douglas Forest Protective Association, which is working on 22 fires.
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South Coast Oregon Thunderstorms
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