Everyone knows emergency medical technician's are in the business of saving lives. But right after a Lawrence County EMT got out of an ambulance, he had to get right back inside.
Paramedic supervisor Ryan Smith said, "About 11:30 or 12 last night it started getting really windy, a lot of lightning. There was a very big lightning show."
On Thursday night, downed trees outside the Lawrence County EMS building showed only part of the wild night they had Wednesday evening.
Smith said, "We had been out on a call about five miles away, and when they got back to the station here, he was going from one building to another when lightning struck the building and inevitably struck him."
Ronald Buttrum told Channel 4 over the phone Thursday that he felt dazed and confused.
Buttrum said he looked up at the sky and saw lightning spinning all around him. He said that's when he said he felt something hit him in the right side of the face. He was near a metal pole at the time.
