Lightning hits Renton home, throws man across room

BY KIRO Radio Staff  on July 13, 2012 @ 3:23 pm (Updated: 5:17 pm - 7/13/12 )

Everyone heard the thunder Friday morning, but one Renton man felt the lightning.

One of the hundreds of lightning strikes across the Puget Sound region hit the 57-year-old man's home on SE 104th St, blowing him across the room.

"That person has been transported to Valley Medical Center with smoke inhalation," said Assistant Renton Fire Chief Erik Wallgren. The man is expected to fully recover.

Chief Wallgren says he had to call for help from five other fire agencies because his firefighters were busy answering dozens of alarm calls triggered by lightning strikes.

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  • dori monson fan wrote...
    my friend lives next door and got a little footage.
    July 13, 2012 6:46 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCsPKWhP5E
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  • gomariners wrote...
    Not just Friday AM
    July 13, 2012 7:24 pm
    We've had thunder all day. Love it, glad the guy will be okay.
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    dori monson fan
    July 13, 2012 9:02 pm
    Has friends? You creep me out.
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  • hpygolkyone wrote...
    Whatthe?!............
    July 14, 2012 6:20 am
    Dori.......how in the heck can they build a house within 50 feet of a high voltage line tower?

    Dude......that has "lightning rod" written all over it.

    Not only that, but that guy must be constantly vibrating from the 100,000 volts about a hundred feet over his head. The flux lines from the magnetic field are probably enough to cook his brains?

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  • Howdy wrote...
    This guy
    July 14, 2012 7:12 am
    needs to be at a casino and rolling dice ASAP. Glad he's ok.
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  • SeattleJack wrote...
    That thunder was AWESOME!
    July 14, 2012 7:26 am
    Yesterday I was sitting in my car in the Edmonds ferry line when a flash of lighting hit that was so bright I actually blinked. Not a second later, the thunder hit, but it was like nothing I'd ever experienced. It wasn't a boom at all; it was a tremendous explosion, like a hundred tons of dynamite suddenly going off above my head. I'm a grown man, but it scared the crap out of me.
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