Five (5) Struck By Lighting Waterbury Region CT 6-8-08

[joetnymedic 43]

Date: 6/8/08

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Location: Madison and Waterbury, CT

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Five patients priority one, two cardiac arrests. Madison Ambulance, Madison Hose, Clinton, Westbrook, V/S Medic 2, AMR out of E'Staven and Hunters out of Middletown dispatched for transport and medics. DEP and Madison PD also on scene doing patient care.

Plus they had another guy in Waterbury get hit at just about the same time. Multiple house strikes with fire. it was nuts.

Joe

[LT. 22 1]

Apparently Waterbury was hit pretty hard by the storms this afternoon. Channel 8(WTNH) News reported that there were 4 working house fires at the same time in Waterbury, all said to be caused by lightning strikes. They reported that mutual aid was brought in from surrounding towns to help cover calls in the city. Anybody have any more info on how bad it was?

[IzzyEng4 427]

Just one bad day for everyone in the area.

Just a note for all those looking and are not from CT. Waterbury is in the Northwest corner of New Haven County while Madison is on the shore line and is in the far south-eastern part of new Haven County, quite a distance from each other. Having that said this was the same storm line that came through and hit both areas. We got the storm out at Foxwoods not long after and it still had a good punch.

There was unfortunately one death at the Madison incident, the four others are still in the hospital as I left work this morning and I know of one house in Waterbury that was heavily damaged by fire caused by a lightning strike.