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A meteor that shot across the Northern California sky Friday night may have caused a residential fire that burned a home to the ground in Nevada County, firefighters said.
Fire crew responded to reports of a structure fire on a cattle ranch around 7:30 p.m., about the same time that residents in the area reported seeing a bright light tearing through the night sky, said Penn Valley Fire District Capt. Clayton Thomas.
No one was injured but a family’s dog, Tug, was killed, along with several rabbits, fire officials said.
“There was even a video of someone who saw that light and drove to where they thought it had fallen and they pulled up to where the fire was,” Thomas said. “They thought that was about where they’d seen the light fall.”
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