Indianapolis contractor revived after lightning strike
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Authorities say a school police officer and a rescue crew have revived a man after a lightning strike left him without a pulse.
Indianapolis Fire Department Battalion Chief Rita Reith (ryt) says the man was among three contractors paving a parking lot at Park Tudor School on the north side of Indianapolis who sought shelter from a storm under a tree about 3 p.m. Tuesday.
She says a lightning strike knocked all three men to the ground, and the one nearest the strike went into cardiac arrest.
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Reith says school Officer William Hagy began CPR and shocked him once with an external defibrillator, and rescue crews shocked him twice more, regaining a pulse 12 minutes after their arrival.
Reith says all three men were hospitalized. Their names weren't released.