INDUSTRY, Pa. - Police say a man has survived a lighting strike while helping set up tents for a Boy Scout outing.
Police in the town of Industry say the 49-year-old man was standing by a tree hit when he was struck by a bolt of lightning at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. 😮
Industry officer Aaron Lopez says the man and others were moving scouts and camping supplies off the site as a thunderstorm approached.
Lopez says no children were nearby when the man was struck. The man was up and walking around when police arrived, though he was treated later at a hospital for a wound where the lightning bolt apparently exited his body.
Police are not identifying the man.
Here in Hammonton, NJ over the July 4th weekend, a co-workers brother was killed by Lightning. If that wasn't bad enough and coincindental, the Father was killed by lightning 10 years earlier.
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[quote author=CampingPhil link=topic=941.msg7176#msg7176 date=1310556246]
Here in Hammonton, NJ over the July 4th weekend, a co-workers brother was killed by Lightning. If that wasn't bad enough and coincindental, the Father was killed by lightning 10 years earlier.
that's horrible - I can't imagine loosing one person in the family that way, never mind two.
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