Posted on 08/22/2014 11:41:22 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Electricity from a power line shocked the firefighters after they had sprayed water on students.
Crews from the Fire and Rescue Department were helping the Campbellsville University band with their video "Challenge" around 11 a.m. Thursday.
A photo obtained by CNN and taken by witness Tyler Arterburn shows the firetruck's aerial ladder hovering over the challenge participants as firefighters inside the ladder's bucket spray them with water.
After the water spray ended, the students left and the firefighters began moving back the ladder, according to Hazlette. This is when the bucket at the top of the ladder came close enough to power lines to shock the firefighters with electricity.
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We lost power and we live 12 miles away.
It just hit me: When I was coming home from work on 210 I passed a TV station mobile van and wondered what they were doing in the sticks. Heh...
You’d think they’d know better...
It is on the top of the list of things not to do especially when operating lifts of any kind.
It is one reason electric repair crews have one or two men in the bucket working while 6 men watch from the ground.
Must be Hell there when it Rains
What is this fad, “ice-bucket challenge”?
How terrible! Prayers up for these firefighters!
From your link....
Captain Tony Grider, 41, and firefighter Simon Quinn, 22, were inside the bucket. They were taken to Taylor Regional Hospital and then transferred to the University of Louisville Medical Center Burn Unit.
“One is in critical condition, the other is fair. Both have been admitted to the hospital’s Level 1 burn unit,” said KentuckyOne Health spokesperson, David McArthur.
Two other firefighters, Captain Steve Marrs, 37, and Alex Johnson, 28, received electric shocks when they tried to lower the bucket and an electric current traveled down the extended ladder, said Hazlette.
I’d say this fad has jumped the proverbial shark at this point...
It is a movement to fund ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Good intentions, but sometimes wrought with mistakes.
You’d think firefighters of all people would no better.
When in Seattle I lived in Newcastle and could see Mercer Island from my back deck. Every time there was a storm half or all of the island would go dark.
I’m in rural KY and have had some of the most amazing storms I’ve ever seen. Lightning striking every second or two for HOURS. Rain like a hurricane. Absolutley NO underground wiring. I did take a slight lightning strike and lost an external hard drive and had to reload windows xp on one comptuer, but i got one of those big surge protector bricks with a battery to protect everything now.
But in the last three years, that thing yesterday was the only time our power ever went out.
The whole world knows what an ice bucket challenge is accept you and me.
Also power company trucks have fiberglass booms for insulation from the rest of the equipment and ground.
We used to test the hydraulic oil for metallic content and would have to replace it if it became too high. It would become a path to ground otherwise.
I literally just heard of it today.
Not this thread. Prior.
I don’t watch TV.
They probably all went on disability and retired as heroes.
Some videos show heavy tubs of water falling off ledges, not tilting over, and hitting people in the head. Has anyone died yet? How about a serious spinal cord energy? Charity for ALS is nice, but this is getting beyond stupid.
You have to wonder when promotions like this begin to get counter-productive; this kind of publicity more than likely sours a lot of people from donating because of the perceived gimmickry or whatever, but then again you shouldn’t have to be shaken down or guilted into contributing your time or money.
Family, friends, colleagues & acquaintances become “aware” of the challenges of neuromuscular disease just in the course of everyday interaction... In my experience, an offer of one’s time or a spontaneous act of generosity is as much appreciated as participating in the current feel-good fad – probably better for your soul in the long run.
It reminds me of all the people who had to wear a yellow Lance Armstrong band, and we know how he turned out.
In other news, the law firm of Shyster and Skinflint has just filed a $41 million dollar lawsuit against the ALS Association on behalf of the firefighters, due to the ALS Associations' gross negligence in not puting safety warning in the terms of the fundraiser.
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