\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Volusia County lifeguard is thanking God after surviving a lightning strike this weekend in Ormond Beach.Damien Curry told WESH 2 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.\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.\u201dCurry said he was able to pull himself together, help the woman, and then drove down the beach warning others about the lightning.\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\u201dCurry 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.\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.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.\u201cMy wife wrote on the fridge \u2018no more lifeguarding\u2019,\u201d Curry said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A Volusia County lifeguard is thanking God after surviving a lightning strike this weekend in Ormond Beach.<\/p>\n
Damien Curry told WESH 2 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\u2019,\u201d Curry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Volusia County lifeguard is thanking God after surviving a lightning strike this weekend in Ormond Beach.Damien Curry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136742,4320,136738,28,30,136740,29,136743,90029,1375,51309,3688,64286,136741,136739,6525,1098,192],"class_list":["post-331499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bad-thing","tag-candidate","tag-damien-curry","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-lifeguard","tag-florida-news","tag-landscaping-business","tag-lightning-strike","tag-mayor","tag-next-day","tag-ormond-beach","tag-pin","tag-seminole-avenue-access-point","tag-sudden-boom","tag-truck","tag-weekend","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331499","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=331499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}