Ammunition dump lightning strike
Appears at 2 points in 2 lectures.
Appearances across the corpus
The guy who's chair of this thing now is John Tobias, U.S. Department of the Army. The guy who used to be is Mitch Guthrie, consulting engineer from North Carolina. Why is the Army interested in lightning protection? They've had a few ammo dumps go in a lightning storm over the years. Get a nice lightning bolt right through your ammo and all of a sudden you don't have any ammo left. Not a good thing in a war. Not a good thing if you're anywhere near the ammo dump — it's a bad day. So that's why they're interested in it.
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.