West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

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An Alliant Energy workman peers around flames fueled by a gas line ruptured when lightning struck a tree on Glasgow Street near West Burlington Avenue in West Burlington a few minutes after noon on Friday. Crews from Alliant Energy, West Burlington Public Works, West Burlington Fire, and West Burlington Police responded to the fire.

Scene before emergency crews arrived.

Photo submitted by Gary Deen

View of Friday’s gas line fire looking east on Glasgow Street in West Burlington. Photo taken moments after lightning strike and before emergency crews arrived on scene.

The U.S. Government mailed a $250 stimulus check to a man who died in Italy 34 years ago.

The Social Security Administration mails between 8,000 and 10,000 checks, worth millions of dollars, to dead people because the agency had no record of their death.

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