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LORAIN, Ohio — A historic downtown Lorain building was struck by lightning during a brief but intense storm Wednesday morning.
Oehlke’s antique store, 530 Shop LTD, sits across Broadway from the Eagles Building. She said it was unclear what the booming noise was at first.The Lorain Fire Department said a construction crew working on the Palace Theatre next door flagged down a passing firetruck to report the lightning strike and falling bricks around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
“It made me jump up on the edge and look down, see what was going on,” said Reinaldo Contreras III, who was working in his artist studio down the street and saw the responding cars. The Eagles Building, built in 1918, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In recent years, it’s sat empty. Contreras wondered if the lightning strike could help garner renewed attention to the historic building.
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