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Ohio
Woman Dies from Lightning Strike June 30, 2008 Collins, Ohio - A northern Ohio woman died after lightning struck her and her husband following a thunderstorm. Jeff Harwood, the Huron County Coroner said that lightning stopped the heart of 51-year-old Debra Meltzer and knocked her husband, Ken, unconscious. The couple was walking in their yard around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday when the lightning bolt hit. "The sun was shining, and it had quit raining. Lightning hit and knocked them both out," said Meltzer's father, Hagis Tuttle. Debra Meltzer was taken to a nearby hospital in Norwalk. Harwood said she was in a coma and brain damaged and removed from life support about midnight. Ken Meltzer suffered an ankle injury. "Went to go feed my animals and lightning struck the tree, struck me, struck her -- put us both down. Nothing you can do about it. My foot's sore. I got burns on it, but I will get over that," Ken said. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 14 people have been killed by lightning in Ohio since 1998.
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