The woman was walking the dogs shortly before 9 a.m. on a footpath near a riverbed on Mines and Rimbank Malls in the community about 15 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Details of the victim’s identity were not immediately available. A member of the forensic office was on his way to the site. Confirmation of the cause of death from the medical examiner was not immediately available.
According to NWS Storm Data, the US has averaged 43 reported lightning deaths per year for the past 30 years. This number was 27 from 2009-2019.
About 10 percent of people killed by lightning are killed, according to the NWS.
The probability of being struck by lightning in a given year is 1 / 1,222,000. The chances of being hit in your life are 1 / 15,300.
The storms, caused by some humidity of the monsoons that entered our area during the night, bring with them scattered rains and some dry lightning. The cloudy weather is accompanied by a heat wave that will persist until the end of the week.
While lightning is rare in Southern California, it occurred frequently during the night with over 3,700 lightning strikes recorded in the area.
