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Pennsylvania man survives lightning strike, again

He emerged a bit shaken, with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans. -AP

Mon, Jul 30, 2007
AP (Associated Press)

HAMLIN, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.

Frick said he survived his second lightning strike Friday -- 27 years to the day of his first -- and emerged a bit shaken, with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans.

"I'm lucky I'm alive," Frick told The Associated Press in a phone interview Sunday night.

Frick was attending a festival when a storm came up quickly. He and six others sought refuge in a shed shortly before lightning struck the ground nearby. The strike sent a shock through Frick and four others.

"It put me up against the wall," said Frick, 68. "When I came to and realized I was alive, the first thing that came to my mind was that I'm pretty lucky."

None of the others were seriously injured, he said.

Twenty-seven years earlier, Frick said he was driving a tractor-trailer when the antenna was struck by lightning, injuring his left side for weeks.

 
 
 
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