Two National Guardsmen deployed to D.C. due to protests were injured in a lightning strike.
Two National Guardsmen deployed to Washington D.C. due to protests were injured in a lightning strike during severe storms Thursday night into early Friday, hours after an initial bolt struck the Washington Monument.
“We received a call around midnight informing us that two military personnel had been injured in a lightning strike,” D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department Public Information Officer Vito Maggiolo told USA TODAY. “We responded and the two individuals were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
Maggiolo said the guardsmen were injured in Lafayette Park, with close proximity to the White House, in a separate incident from the lightning bolt that struck the Washington Monument. Both soldiers were from the South Carolina Army National Guard, a spokeswoman for the state’s Guard told theThe strike took place while the guardsmen were providing security within the perimeter set up at a protest in the wake of
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