Identify a recommended safe location during lightning events.

Identify a recommended safe location during lightning events.

• A. Open field
• B. Tall tree
• C. Fully enclosed buildings with wiring and plumbing
• D. Small unprotected shelter

Answer: (C)

When lightning is possible, the safest place is inside a substantial, fully enclosed building that has a proper grounding system through its wiring and plumbing. Being indoors puts you behind walls and a roof that shield you from the rapidly changing electric fields outside, and the building’s grounding network gives the current a path to the earth that does not involve you. Open fields offer no protection and a tall tree can attract a strike, putting anyone nearby at serious risk. A small, unprotected shelter may not provide reliable shielding or a solid grounding path, so it doesn't meet the safety standard as well as a fully enclosed, grounded building.

When lightning is possible, the safest place is inside a substantial, fully enclosed building that has a proper grounding system through its wiring and plumbing. Being indoors puts you behind walls and a roof that shield you from the rapidly changing electric fields outside, and the building’s grounding network gives the current a path to the earth that does not involve you.

Open fields offer no protection and a tall tree can attract a strike, putting anyone nearby at serious risk. A small, unprotected shelter may not provide reliable shielding or a solid grounding path, so it doesn't meet the safety standard as well as a fully enclosed, grounded building.