{"id":337991,"date":"2026-09-04T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:01:23","slug":"watch-us-man-struck-by-lightning-describes-horrific-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337991\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: US man struck by lightning describes &#8216;horrific&#8217; experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A man struck by lightning as he was walking down the street in Staten Island, New York, has described the experience as &#8220;horrific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Thomas Fahmy said he had been walking to the dentist on 27 August when he saw &#8220;a bright white flash&#8221; and instantly fell to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never felt these sensations ever in my life&#8221;, he told CBS News, BBC News&#8217;s US partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Fahmy was sent to hospital with the help of a local resident who called 911, and did not sustain serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man struck by lightning as he was walking down the street in Staten Island, New York, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-337991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}