(UPI) – When firefighters from the Ridgeville Township Volunteer Firefighter Department arrived on the scene to extinguish a burning tree Tuesday morning, they were met with a particularly challenging job.
Lightning from some early morning storms had struck and ignited a tree near a home in Ridgeville, Ohio, a town between Dayton and Cincinnati in southwestern Ohio. But firefighters came across a unique site when they arrived. Rather than finding a tree engulfed in flames, they instead saw a tree burning from the inside out.
“Lightning can do some crazy things and we had a tough time getting to every hot spot in this tree trunk,” the department posted on Facebook along with the photos. “Big thanks to Moyer’s Tree Service for coming out this morning to help get this tree cut down for us and the homeowner so we could fully extinguish the fire.”
