{"id":169015,"date":"2026-04-18T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169015\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:19:07","slug":"pennsylvania-man-dies-after-lightning-strike-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man dies after lightning strike in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

WAUKESHA, Wis. (WHP) \u2014 A man from Pennsylvania died Wednesday night after he was struck by lightning in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Peter Paul Garamone Sr., 41, was identified as the man who was struck, CBS 58 reports<\/a>. Garamone was a long-haul trucker with a wife and son.<\/p>\n

Garamone was pronounced dead at a local hospital after he was struck around 7:43 p.m. at a gas station in Waukesha, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

According to Waukesha Police Department, Garamone was walking through the parking lot during a heavy storm when he was struck by lightning.<\/p>\n

The manner and cause of death have not been publicly released by the county’s medical examiner. CBS 21 reached out to see if more information was available. <\/p>\n

Wednesday’s incident is the first reported lightning fatality in the U.S. this year, according to the National Lightning Safety Council. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAUKESHA, Wis. (WHP) \u2014 A man from Pennsylvania died Wednesday night after he was struck by lightning in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-169015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}