CEDAR HILLS — The Augustus family wasn’t home when a lightning bolt struck their front yard, igniting a 15-foot-evergreen tree.

An intense storm rolled over Northern Utah County, Wednesday afternoon, bringing heavy rains and crashes of thunder.

“All of us jumped back. I admit I stepped further into the garage, not knowing if another bolt of lightning was going to hit,” William Thresher said.

Thresher owns Thresher Piano Movers. He was on a job moving a large safe, two houses over, when lightning struck.

“Usually, you can count one-1,000, two-1,000 after lightning strikes, and you count your way up to the thunder. But they both happened at the same time,” Thresher said. “It was so loud. I looked outside the garage, and the neighbor’s tree was full of flames.”

Witnesses said smoke f

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