Historical ammunition dump lightning strike

Brief mention — why the NFPA 780 committee chair (Army employee) is interested in lightning protection.

Underwriters Labs came up with a master label, the Ontario Lightning Rod Act, and eventually they came up with other codes. The current code for lightning rods is the National Fire Protection Association 780, Standard for Installation of Lightning Protection Systems, 2011 edition. The guy who wrote this article down here happens to be the chairman of the committee that writes this thing. He's a guy in the government, works for the Army, is interested in lightning protection because they've blown up a lot of ammo dumps when they had thunderstorms.