The Nation - News from July 7, 1985

Almost all of Utah was blacked out when lightning struck a power substation that exploded in a bright orange fireball, sending a huge cloud of black smoke 100 feet into the air. More than 1 million persons in Salt Lake City, Ogden and St. George, in the southwestern part of the state, were without power. A witness said the fire at the substation, about a mile from Salt Lake City International Airport, was accompanied by about six other fires in the Salt Lake Valley, apparently triggered by a lengthy storm.