19-year-old Benjamin Graves, a Fort Worth Police Department cadet, is feeling very fortunate and thankful to be alive after he was hit by lightning during training.
Police Department cadet, is feeling very fortunate and thankful to be alive after he was hit by lightning during training.
Graves and two Fort Worth firefighters were injured by a lightning strike Friday morning as he and several other cadets were running laps around the training facility track.Two Fort Worth firefighters and a Fort Worth police cadet were struck by lightning at the Public Safety Training Center in Fort Worth Friday morning.
"Every time we do the staff meeting we have to start off with running around the track first for a mile and a half," said Graves. "I still remember falling. I still remember having trouble moving. I still just remember everyone crowded around me, having to turn me over." "I would honestly describe it as just, it was just really painful," he said. "Some people say they didn’t see it, they just felt it. My sergeant says she did see it, but she wasn’t sure if it struck next to me or actually struck me."
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