LOS ANGELES—A woman and her two dogs were fatally struck by lightning in Pico Rivera June 22 as a storm front pushed across the Southland and led to power outages and beach closures.
The lightning strike in Pico Rivera occurred around 8:50 a.m. when the woman was walking along the San Gabriel River, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The woman and her dogs both died at the scene.
“There’s a one-in-a-million chance of something like this happening, and it happened,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Patrick Morey told the Los Angeles Times.
According to the county fire department, the woman was struck near Mines and Rimbank avenues….