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Dashie said:
On CP24 witnesses say that one of them was wearing a hat and it completely melted on his head OUCH!!!! Story is still developing my thoughts and prayers go out to them.
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Raiden said:
Puss.
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Art Mann
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Geography alert
Hey OldYanker, Toronto burbs are still part of Southern Ontario
Full story here
OldYanker said:
Hey OldYanker, Toronto burbs are still part of Southern Ontario
Full story here
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Art Mann said:
Thanks Art, that oldyanker must be really old to miss the geography test :slap:
STOUFFVILLE - One man is fighting for his life and three others are in serious condition after being zapped by a bolt of lightning at a golf course north of the city.
Witnesses say the foursome were wrapping up their game at Rolling Hills Golf Club, near Warden Ave. and Stouffville Rd., when a horn sounded around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday warning golfers of a storm sweeping across the GTA.
But the lightning struck a few minutes later before the group could get off the links and into the clubhouse.
“All of the sudden there was just this gigantic flash and bang all at the same time,” golfer Peter Epstein, who had taken shelter under a nearby canopy, said after the frightening incident.
Moments earlier, Max Feather was trying to finish the 18-hole The Classic — one of three courses at Rolling Hills — before heading inside to safety when he spotted four men walking by along the fairway.
The Toronto man didn’t see the flash of lightning or hear the crack of thunder, but he certainly felt the impact.
“I got knocked on my butt,” Feather recalled. “I was on the ground and it was black.”
Also, “there was a strange taste in my mouth,” he added.
Once he was able to see again, Feather noticed the foursome who had passed by him were now lying “motionless” on the ground.
“I looked over and saw these four guys all in a row,” he said, adding he initially thought they were all dead.
Feather “ran like hell” to the clubhouse yelling, “Call 911, four men down on the 18th.”
Epstein said he and another man, who happened to be an intensive care nurse, heard the cry for help and rushed to the aid of the injured golfers.
Three of the men had a pulse but one did not, he recalled.
“He was on his face, on the ground,” Epstein said. “We rolled him over and he was totally dead.
“His eyelids were open, glazed over … (we) checked his neck for his pulse, no pulse, and then started CPR.”
Feather said all four men had bloodied faces and the pants on the golfer who wasn’t breathing had been split apart.
Then he noticed a piece of blue fabric on the ground, which he soon realized was the remnants of a hat.
“There was nothing left of it,” Feather said. “It was just shredded.”
He said the men managed to revive the man who had stopped breathing within a minute or so.
“If they hadn’t been there, there’s no way he would have made it,” said Feather, who drove home soon after knowing he had “dodged a bullet.”
York Regional Police Const. Laura Nicolle confirmed the four men were rushed to hospital following the lightning strike.
A Thornhill man, 51, and two Toronto men, 53 and 56, were transported to hospital in stable condition, she said. A 60-year-old Richmond Hill man was transported to hospital in critical condition.
“All four men remain in hospital at this time,” Nicolle said.
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He said the men managed to revive the man who had stopped breathing within a minute or so.
“If they hadn’t been there, there’s no way he would have made it,” said Feather, who drove home soon after knowing he had “dodged a bullet.”
Let's hope he pulls through to play many more rounds.
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