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Lightning strikes Essex home

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A home was struck by lightning during a Thursday afternoon storm in Baltimore County.

Police said around 4 p.m. lightning struck a tree in the in the 200 block of Marlyn Avenue in Essex. The electricity traveled from the tree into a nearby house.

A resident of the home was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution. Fire officials said the man was  not struck by lightning,