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Lightning Strike Sends Two To Hospital In Calgary, Non-Life Threatening Injuries

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Aug, 2016 12:08 PM

CALGARY — Two people in Calgary who were close to a lightning strike have been sent to hospital.

Emergency medical services responded to a call of four adults being affected by a lighting strike at around 2:00 p.m. in an area near Calgary International Airport.

Alberta Health Services says the lightning didn't actually hit anyone but was close enough to hurt two of the people.

Initial reports say the two suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The other two people were not hurt.

An official says lightning can expose people to electricity over a large area beyond where it actually strikes.

"From what I am told no one was directly struck but they were in the vicinity of a lightning strike," Nate Pike, an AHS spokesman said Wednesday.

"There is a considerably larger area around a lightning strike that can become polarized."

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