VIDEO: I felt burning, US man recounts surviving direct lightning strike
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- Thomas Fahmy said he felt tingling, numbness, pain and burning after lightning struck him while he held an umbrella in Staten Island, New York.
- He regained his footing, reached a neighbour’s house and later said hospital examinations found no burns and that he had not lost consciousness.
- Fahmy said he went to church afterward to thank God for surviving.
Thomas Fahmy said his entire body began tingling and burning after lightning struck him while he walked with an umbrella in Staten Island, New York. Video circulating online captured the bright flash and showed him falling to the ground.
“Once the lightning struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were like tingling, numbness, pain. Just, I feel this burning sensation,” he said in a video shared by CNN on Instagram.
Once the lightning struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were like tingling, numbness, pain. Just, I feel this burning sensation.
Fahmy said he regained his footing moments later and walked to a neighbour’s house for safety. He was later taken to hospital, where doctors carried out multiple full-body examinations. He said they found no burns and that he did not lose consciousness during the incident.
After surviving the strike, Fahmy said he went to church on Sunday to express his gratitude. “I went to church on Sunday too to say thank you God,” he said.
I went to church on Sunday too to say thank you God.
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