{"id":398155,"date":"2026-09-12T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398155\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:08:20","slug":"bodycam-couple-injured-in-lightning-strike-on-florida-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398155\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam: Couple injured in lightning strike on Florida trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodycam shows response to save husband, wife severely injured in lightning strike on Central Florida trail<\/p>\n

\"DaciaWINTER GARDEN, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Body camera video released Friday shows the response to save a husband and wife struck by lightning last week in Winter Garden.<\/p>\n

It happened Sept. 2 on West Orange Trail<\/a>, according to the city’s fire department. <\/p>\n

In the video, you can see an officer running to the scene.<\/p>\n

“They were struck by lightning,” a witness says. “Their umbrella was struck by lightning, and they were both flat on their face.”<\/p>\n

The couple, both in their 40s, were described as critical and were taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n

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Images provided<\/p>\n

Couple injured in lightning strike on popular Central Florida trail<\/p>\n

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The couple survived and are back at home after a few days in the hospital. Here’s what they said in a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n

>> More: Good Samaritans credited with saving couple’s lives after lightning strike on Central Florida trail<\/a><\/p>\n

Lightning strikes in Florida<\/p>\n

A 20-year-old Michigan man died after being struck by lightning earlier this week<\/a> near downtown Celebration, just one week after he moved to Central Florida to begin working in the Disney College Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodycam shows response to save husband, wife severely injured in lightning strike on Central Florida trail WINTER GARDEN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32280,8285,156501,23829,2957,8597,3324,1210,158639,90029,139,141,140,20307,1456,918,24617,25863],"class_list":["post-398155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-body-camera-video","tag-bodycam","tag-central-florida-trail","tag-couple","tag-fire-department","tag-friday","tag-husband","tag-life","tag-lightning-last-week","tag-lightning-strike","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-response","tag-week","tag-wesh","tag-wife","tag-winter-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398155","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=398155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}