A large fireball lit up the Oxfordshire sky on Monday evening (2 October) after a tank at a processing facility was struck by lightning.

Waste management company Severn Trent Green Power confirmed the blaze occurred at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton.

A digester tank was struck by lightning at 7:20pm, causing gases within the tank to ignite, it said in a statement.

No-one was injured, a company representative told the PA news agency.

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Lightning just struck that and that was on fire.

That looks like it's like gas is coming out.


Speaker 0: There's a fire! Oh my god! Lightning just struck that and that was on fire. Oh my god! That is flipping massive.

That is crazy. That's pretty mad. Holy s***. What even is that? That looks like it's like gas is coming out.

There's no sign of it. Oh my God. That is mad.

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Massive fireball lights up sky following large ‘explosion’ in Oxfordshire