Lightning hit a family causing a boy's necklace to melt and shatter
Randi Mann
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On Saturday, May 25, 1996, lightning struck a tree and fell on a group of picnickers in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
A family was eating at four wooden picnic tables on a sunny day when they saw lightning strikes around 28 km away. Within three minutes, the group saw another flash of lightning.