CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. \u2014 A teenager died on Mount Blue Sky on Sunday after being struck by lightning, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office (CCCSO) said.<\/p>\n
The lightning strike happened around 1:20 p.m. Sunday. After first responders were called to the area, they found four people injured in addition to the one teen who died. <\/p>\n
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Teen dies on Mt. Blue Sky after struck by lightning: Clear Creek Co. sheriff<\/p>\n
Three people had minor injuries, and the fourth was airlifted off the mountain.<\/p>\n
Three of the five people were all members of the same family, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office said. Another one of the people in the group was also a minor. <\/p>\n
A verified GoFundMe identified 15-year-old Levi Strobel of Erie as the teenager who was killed. His younger brother Jace was transported to a hospital via Flight for Life helicopter. In the GoFundMe, his family said he improved overnight. Click here<\/a> for the GoFundMe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coloradans making a difference | Denver7 featured videos<\/p>\n Denver7 is committed to making a difference in our community by standing up for what’s right, listening, lending a helping hand and following through on promises. See that work in action, in the videos above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. \u2014 A teenager died on Mount Blue Sky on Sunday after being struck by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[108009,108010,136,138,137,108011],"class_list":["post-253223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ccso","tag-clear-creek-county-sheriffs-office","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mount-blue-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253223","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=253223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}