A 16-year-old lady is in essential situation after she and her father had been struck by lightning whereas looking in Florida, deputies stated.
The teenager and her father had been looking within the woods in Putnam County late within the afternoon Sept. 26 when lightning struck a tree, in line with a Sept. 27 information launch from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The lightning hit each the teenager and her father subsequent to the tree, deputies stated, inflicting them to lose consciousness.
When the daddy awoke, his daughter was nonetheless unconscious and wasn’t respiratory, deputies stated.
The daddy referred to as 911 and began CPR till paramedics arrived, in line with the discharge.
The teenager was taken to a trauma middle and was in essential situation as of Sept. 27.
“We stand with our neighborhood as we rally for this teen,” the sheriff’s workplace stated within the launch. “She has confirmed a fighter and our prayers prolong to her, her household and buddies.”
Deputies didn’t launch the id of the teenager however shared she is a scholar at Palatka Junior-Senior Excessive Faculty.
The varsity held a prayer round their flag pole Sept. 27, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
In Fb posts, buddies and family members recognized the 16-year-old as Baylee Holbrook.
“Baylee Holbrook you have got touched many lives and you continue to have many to the touch,” Bryanna Corridor wrote in a Fb submit. “Everybody please proceed to hope for her, household, and buddies.”
In response to her Fb web page, Baylee is an avid hunter, golfer and photographer.
Baylee’s father, Matthew Holbrook, requested the neighborhood in a Fb submit for prayers for her restoration.
“You and your loved ones have been on my coronary heart constantly,” Paige Pacetti Watts wrote within the feedback. “The quantity of outpouring you have got from our neighborhood exhibits what a(n) superb and delightful daughter you have got raised.”
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace stated there was a rise in lightning strikes as storms transfer via north Florida this week.
The sheriff’s workplace needs “to remind our neighborhood that the forecast is predicted a number of extra days of elevated rain, thunder and lightning. Storms can come rapidly and lightning can strike as much as 10 miles away from any rainfall.”
Palatka is about 55 miles south of Jacksonville.
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