{"id":166939,"date":"2026-04-15T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:02:08","slug":"tree-catches-fire-after-lightning-strike-in-western-pennsylvania-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166939\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree catches fire after lightning strike in Western Pennsylvania cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA TREE CAUGHT FIRE AFTER IT WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. AS STORM SWEPT THROUGH WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LAST NIGHT, A PLUME OF WHITE SMOKE, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WAS BILLOWING FROM A TREE AT A CEMETERY IN CARNEGIE, ALLEGHENY COUNTY.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Tree catches fire after lightning strike in Western Pennsylvania cemetery<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"WGAL<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:38 PM EDT Apr 15, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA tree caught fire after it was struck by lightning as storms swept through Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. A plume of white smoke was seen billowing from a tree at a cemetery in Carnegie, Allegheny County. Firefighters eventually put it out, but not before a lot of leaves on the tree were burnt up.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tCARNEGIE, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A tree caught fire after it was struck by lightning as storms swept through Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

A plume of white smoke was seen billowing from a tree at a cemetery in Carnegie, Allegheny County. <\/p>\n

Firefighters eventually put it out, but not before a lot of leaves on the tree were burnt up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TREE CAUGHT FIRE AFTER IT WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. AS STORM SWEPT THROUGH WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LAST NIGHT,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,13266,422,8631,26860,68448,2922,75234,28,30,29,75235,63654,1522,75236,6740,75231,5382,75232,19929,75233,71263],"class_list":{"0":"post-166939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-allegheny-county","9":"tag-carnegie","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-firefighter","12":"tag-leave","13":"tag-lightning-strike","14":"tag-lot","15":"tag-pa-cemetery","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","18":"tag-pennsylvania-news","19":"tag-plume","20":"tag-severe-thunderstorms","21":"tag-severe-weather","22":"tag-severe-weather-tree","23":"tag-storm","24":"tag-struck-by-lightning","25":"tag-tree","26":"tag-tree-caught-on-fire","27":"tag-tuesday-night","28":"tag-western-pennsylvania-cemetery","29":"tag-white-smoke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}