{"id":50762,"date":"2025-07-09T07:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50762\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:12","slug":"rectory-of-pennsylvania-church-catches-fire-due-to-lightning-as-severe-weather-hit-philadelphia-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50762\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectory of Pennsylvania church catches fire due to lightning as severe weather hit Philadelphia region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Cleanup underway after severe storms rocked Philadelphia region on Tuesday <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1e19e2c70f5f5cdac96089b7b6e2c2af.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/cleanup-underway-after-severe-storms-rocked-philadelphia-region-on-tuesday\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Cleanup underway after severe storms rocked Philadelphia region on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>          01:13<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cleanup is underway after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-weather-tuesday-july-8-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">destructive storms hit the Philadelphia region<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday evening&#8217;s storms came and went in a flash, but not before leaving their mark with heavy rain, high-speed winds, lightning and the threat of tornadoes and flash floods.<\/p>\n<p>In Center City, the storms sent people running for cover, but some enjoyed the relief on another day of extreme heat in the Delaware Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In Phoenixville, Chester County, the situation was far more serious. The rectory at St. Basil the Great Parish caught fire. Staff said a lightning strike caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>In Douglasville, Berks County, a tree was uprooted and landed on a house, but as of Tuesday night, injuries weren&#8217;t reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A tree also fell in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, and blocked Hollow Road.<\/p>\n<p>The storms knocked out power to thousands in the Philadelphia region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday night, PECO said more than 4,500 Bucks County customers lost power.\t<\/p>\n<p>In Chester County, nearly 2,500 customers do not have power, while Delaware County reported about 1,000 outages. About 1,500 PEOC customers lost power in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/search\/author\/siafa-lewis\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siafa  Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Siafa Lewis anchors CBS3 Eyewitness News at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleanup underway after severe storms rocked Philadelphia region on Tuesday Cleanup underway after severe storms rocked Philadelphia region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7984,905,9631,1448,2830,1311,38251,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-50762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bucks-county","10":"tag-delaware","11":"tag-montgomery-county","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-storm-damage","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114821998117774031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}