DADE CITY, FL — Two people were injured in separate Dade City lightning strikes on Monday, multiple reports said.
The first strike happened around 4:50 p.m., when a man was hit by lightning while standing outside a home on Palmilla Circle in the Lake Jovita area, WTSP reported.
Bystanders performed CPR on the man as first responders were enroute, reports said.
Emergency crews brought to the hospital with critical injuries, Fox 13 said.
Twenty-five minutes after the first lightning strike, around 5:15 p.m., a second man was indirectly hit about 4 miles east of the first incident, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
The man was conscious and breathing when first responders arrived, but he was brought to a local hospital as a precaution.
Neither victim’s name was released by officials.
These incidents are on the heels of lightning strikes across the state killing one and injuring multiple others over the July 4 holiday weekend.
A 51-year-old man in the water at Fort Myers Beach was killed in a Friday afternoon lightning strike while three family members he was with were injured.
Meanwhile, a Volusia County lifeguard, who is running for Ormond Beach mayoral seat, was injured in a lightning strike on the Seminole Approach on Saturday, and a Seminole County deputy was hospitalized after an indirect lightning strike on Sunday.
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