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<\/p>\n‘All of a sudden boom! It just blows up’: Florida lifeguard survives lightning strike on July 4th<\/p>\n
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A Volusia County, Florida, lifeguard is thanking God after surviving a lightning strike this weekend in Ormond Beach.<\/p>\n
Damien Curry told sister station WESH he had volunteered to work on July 4th and was responding to a call about a woman who needed help getting to her car near the Seminole Avenue access point when the bolt hit nearby.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got my hand on the side of the truck, and then all of a sudden boom! It just blows up, and I jump through the truck. I get lifted off my feet,\u201d Curry said. \u201cI\u2019m shaking, I mean I\u2019m violently shaking. I was in panic. My whole left side of my body was tingling, pins and needles. It was like a bomb went off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curry said he was able to pull himself together, help the woman, and then drove down the beach, warning others about the lightning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m literally on the PA with the lights on going, \u2018get off the beach! I just got struck by lightning, you\u2019re gonna die!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Curry said paramedics later checked him out, and he went to the hospital. He says the tingling sensation subsided several hours later and he\u2019s feeling much better now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a rough sleep with the fireworks going off. The next day the worst thing happened, the storm came in, and I had a full-blown panic attack yesterday,\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n
Curry runs a landscaping business and is also a candidate for Ormond Beach\u2019s mayor. He has been a part-time lifeguard for eight years but says now he\u2019s probably going to take a break from watching over the waves for a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife wrote on the fridge \u2018no more lifeguarding,’\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘All of a sudden boom! It just blows up’: Florida lifeguard survives lightning strike on July 4th A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136742,136751,93153,136747,4320,136738,123522,123481,831,14088,28,30,136740,29,532,132405,136752,53629,136743,136749,90029,136746,1375,51309,121032,3688,136750,12847,64286,121028,136744,136741,10173,136745,136739,6525,121031,136748,2261,221,135028,1098,918,47173,192],"class_list":["post-331348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bad-thing","tag-beach-rescue","tag-beach-safety","tag-beach-storm","tag-candidate","tag-damien-curry","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-emergency-response","tag-extreme-weather","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-lifeguard","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-weather","tag-fourth-of-july-weekend","tag-hospital-evaluation","tag-jsnd","tag-landscaping-business","tag-lightning-safety","tag-lightning-strike","tag-lightning-survivor","tag-mayor","tag-next-day","tag-nowcast","tag-ormond-beach","tag-ormond-beach-lifeguard","tag-page","tag-pin","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-seminole-avenue","tag-seminole-avenue-access-point","tag-severe-weather","tag-struck-by-lightning","tag-sudden-boom","tag-truck","tag-use-nextfre","tag-volusia-beaches","tag-volusia-county","tag-weather","tag-weekday-news-watch","tag-weekend","tag-wesh","tag-wjcl","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}