On Tuesday evening at approximately 5:45 pm, lightning struck an oil storage tank 10 kilometers south of Stoughton resulting in three storage tanks catching on fire. The fires was contained this morning. 

"It burned for quite awhile," explained Stoughton Fire Chief, Pat Slater. "We just went out and mopped up a little bit this morning so they can continue with the clean up."

"Basically it's just the tanks themselves, and whatever product was in there and the water tank. Everything was contained inside the berm. Everything worked as it should, no environmental damage or anything like that, no spill. Everything's designed to contain it."

He mentioned that lightning strikes are quite common and the sites are designed to deal with these situations. 

"It's fairly common. You can't have all this stuff stuck up in the air and a bunch of lightning around and not hit something. There's quite a bit of damage because the three tanks aren't cheap."

Chief Slater added that no one was hurt in the strike or resulting fire. 

"It's in the evening, nobody's around working, even if somebody would have been onsite, there's a very, very small chance of getting hurt."