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Associated Press
an hour ago
- Climate
- Associated Press
Boy struck by lightning in New York City's Central Park says he feels lucky
NEW YORK (AP) — A 15-year-old boy says he feels 'pretty lucky' after being struck by lightning in Central Park on Thursday when a round of thunderstorms swept through New York City. Yassin Khalifa, a high school sophomore, told WABC-TV he was in the park with friends enjoying a picnic when the storm suddenly rolled in. 'I leaned up against a tree, and I told them, 'Oh, guys, let's ride out the storm,' which in hindsight might not have been the best idea,' Khalifa said. Khalifa said said he was knocked unconscious for several minutes. Crystal Mateo, 17, told the New York Times she witnessed the scene and saw Khalifa's friends frantically calling for help and trying to revive him. 'It was scary,' she said. 'I was crying.' Khalifa told WABC he was conscious when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was treated for burns on his neck and leg. Khalifa said he's expected to make a full recovery. 'Apparently, I'm pretty lucky, because my spine was directly against the tree and no nerve damage happened. So I'm like, not losing any sort of motor function,' Khalifa said. 'So I'm pretty happy about that.' Lightning kills around 30 people a year in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Strikes, though, are usually not fatal. About 90 percent of people injured by a lightning bolt survive.
The Sun
3 hours ago
- The Sun
Protesters attacked outside Iranian Embassy in London as six arrested
TWO men have been rushed to hospital after a group of protesters were attacked outside the Iranian Embassy. Police confirmed that six men had been arrested following the attack near Hyde Park this morning. 1 Officers remain in the area after two men were treated for their injuries at the scene by medical staff. A spokesman for the Met said: 'At 9.53am on Friday, 20 June, officers responded to reports of an altercation in Prince's Gate, SW1. 'Six men have been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm – they remain in police custody. 'Two men were treated for injuries at the scene and have been taken to hospital for further treatment by the London Ambulance Service. 'Police have cordoned off the area while initial investigations take place.' is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video. Like us on Facebook at and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun.
BBC News
7 hours ago
- Health
- BBC News
NI health: Woman was asked to examine husband to confirm he was dead
A grieving woman who was told to examine her husband to confirm he was dead says it remains in her mind every time she closes her Catherine Steele's husband Anthony died from stomach cancer in May she called an ambulance but was told none were was asked to make a video call and check her husband's vital signs to confirm he had Northern Ireland Ambulance Service apologised and said: "We are sorry that she did not experience the level of service that she would rightly expect at this particularly difficult time." Video call Mrs Steele had phoned a 24-hour district nurse helpline, but she said no one picked sister then rang the ambulance Steele's sister was told an ambulance would be sent out but none sister then had to leave to pick up Mrs Steele's son from work, leaving her alone with her Steele later received a call to say an ambulance would not be arriving and was asked to take part in a video call."I had to do his pulse on his wrists, and on his neck and then I had to open his eyes up on the video call so she could see," Mrs Steele told BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan was then the medical professional on the call confirmed Mrs Steele's husband was dead. She was asked to contact a doctor, who sent out the district nurse."It's just my last memory of him and it's just in my mind every time I close my eyes," she said."It's not acceptable, I know the ambulance service and NHS is under stress but I just feel it should never happen again."I don't want this to happen to anybody".Mrs Steele said she had been prescribed sleeping tablets due to suffering from insomnia since the incident."I just close my eyes and see his eyes, and it just replays back and back and back on your mind." In a statement, the NIAS said: "We will contact Mrs Steele to arrange to meet her and apologise to her in person and, more importantly, to listen to her concerns that we might learn from her experience to help ensure that no-one else would have to go through the same."
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Yahoo
20-year-old northern Wisconsin man hospitalized after being ejected from corvette during crash
NOKOMIS, Wis. (WFRV) – A 20-year-old man was hospitalized with crash injuries after being ejected from his vehicle when it went airborne and rolled over multiple times. The Oneida County Sheriff's Office reported that dispatchers were alerted by several callers to a single-vehicle accident around 8:37 p.m. on Wednesday. 'Opening a window doesn't protect': Two Rivers Police remind residents not to leave children & pets in vehicles Deputies responded to the scene of County Highway K and Mitchell Lane in Nokomis. Initial investigations indicated that a 1986 Chevy Corvette driven by a 20-year-old, identified as Gabriel Wallmow of Rhinelander, was heading west on County Highway K. Witnesses reportedly say that the driver passed them up rapidly, as Wallmow lost control of the vehicle. The car entered a ditch, went airborne and rolled numerous times. Wallnow was reportedly ejected from the crash and taken to Tomahawk Aspirus Hospital by ambulance before being transported to another hospital via helicopter. 27-hour standoff in Wisconsin ends in arrest of burglary suspect after SWAT teams deploy chemical agents The investigation is ongoing. No additional details were provided. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Telegraph
a day ago
- Health
- Telegraph
My night with Israeli paramedics during Iran's worst missile barrage yet
Israel's main emergency dispatch centre for ambulances and paramedics is no ordinary healthcare facility. Buried 15 metres underground, the hardened control room can be sealed with blast doors and sits three floors down in a vast subterranean complex that is more Pentagon than NHS. Overnight on Wednesday, Telegraph reporters were given exclusive access to the high-security facility, which, since Friday, has been responding 24/7 to human damage caused by Iran's missile assault on the Jewish state. It is the headquarters of Magen David Adom (the red star of David), Israel's national ambulance service, one of the most advanced and unusual in the world. It's a place where call handlers are able to pinpoint the impact of missile strikes in real time and dispatch not just ambulances, mobile ICU units and helicopters, but specialist buses capable of carrying seven patients on advanced life support at once. This being Israel at a time of war, many of the emergency responders carry pistols on their belts alongside their tourniquets and stethoscopes. 'We believe we have the best and most advanced emergency service in the world but tomorrow we will be better,' says Elli Bin, MDA's swashbuckling director general. Since the start of Operation Rising Lion - the military name given to Israel's attack on Iran - and the declaration of a state of emergency early last Friday, his crews have responded to strikes that have killed at least 23 and injured more than 700, many with life-changing blast injuries. 'The size of the impacts is what makes this different,' said Israel Weingarten, MDA's deputy director of disasters. 'With the rockets from Gaza and even Lebanon it was contained. Here the blast radius can go to 300 metres or more. 'It means the numbers [of casualties] are higher and it's much more difficult to get to people. We also see many more internal blast, burn and crush injuries'. On Wednesday night, the blast doors of the MDA dispatch centre slammed shut on the dot of midnight as, with the rest of the country, the centre was alerted to the night's first barrage of missiles launched from Iran. As people across Israel dashed for bomb shelters - most in basements - screens lit up across the room with live feeds from news and static cameras across the country. Through these and other means, the centre is able to estimate probable and actual impact points, giving it vital extra minutes to get emergency crews to the scene. 'Speed is everything,' said Ori Lazarovich, 26, a senior paramedic and head of MDA international relations for Europe. 'If you want to save someone haemorrhaging or trapped in a fire every second counts'. On Sunday this week, Mr Lazarovich was among the first to arrive at the massive Bat Yam missile strike near Tel Aviv, where he worked with others to pull survivors from the burning buildings. 'Normally you would wait for the first services to arrive but we were first and had to deal with it,' said the paramedic who first trained with the Israeli Defence Forces. The first batch of missiles on Wednesday night was taken down by Israel's air defence system. But just as the room paused to catch its breath, a second salvo was launched, sparking another seven to eight minutes of frantic activity as the projectiles arched high above Iraq and Jordan before hurtling down towards Israel. And again, the air defence systems locked on, shooting them out of the sky before they could impact. The MDA centre breathed again. For the first three nights of this conflict, several missiles got through from Iran, the size of the barrages seemingly overwhelming Israel's air defences. There was significant damage done to both industrial and civilian infrastructure, with the destructive force of the blasts catching many Israelis by surprise. An oil refinery in the north was set ablaze and shut down, and while Iran had majored on military sites outside of major cities in the attacks launched in April and October last year, now it was hitting major population centres. The Iron Dome and its related air defence systems, which have given citizens a very real sense of protection, were not 'hermetic,' the government went on air to stress. Only an underground safe room could really provide protection. After the second strike in the early hours of Thursday morning, there was a long pause before a third barrage hit just after 7am in the morning. Two, nearly three, days of successful interceptions had built confidence that the Iranian capacity to get through was fading. So much so that lockdown regulations had been relaxed to allow many more businesses to reopen on Thursday morning. But at 7.12am, another 20 missiles started to hit, three of them getting through to cause very significant damage. A major hospital, the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba in the south of the country, was hit, as were two densely packed housing areas south of Tel Aviv, one at Holon and one at Ramat Gan. The Telegraph raced to Holon where the devastation was immense, and it was a miracle no one was killed. If you had to guess where pictures of the scene came from, many would say Gaza. The missile hit one ageing five-storey block directly, completely demolishing it and leaving the four immediately adjacent buildings without windows and structurally unstable. A 12-floor high-rise had its cladding and glass stripped away from top to bottom on two sides, and even 400 metres away on surrounding streets, the blast had blown out doors and windows. The local synagogue was badly damaged, and a school and three local kindergartens were strewn with rubble. Had they been open, the carnage would have been unimaginable. Professor Alon Ben Nun, a prominent surgeon and medical director of the fire brigades, was early at the scene helping people from their shelters and out of the rubble. 'I would say there were a 100 walking wounded and four seriously wounded,' he said as drones with thermal cameras buzzed overhead searching for unconscious survivors. Gill Vaknin, 57, said he had just got into his building's shared bomb shelter when the missile hit. There was no 'whoosh' of warning, just an 'incredibly loud and powerful blast'. 'It's hard to describe,' he said, 'the whole building shook. If we were not in the shelter I would not be talking to you now'. Barch Angel, a retired machinery operative, 55, was out when the blast hit, but it very nearly killed his wife Dalia. She received an alert on her phone and reached the entrance to the shelter with only seconds to spare. The blast exploded through the plate glass front of the couple's apartment, shredding the main living area and kitchen. Anyone who had been there would almost certainly have died. Dalia could not speak for emotion, while Barch surveyed the damage philosophically. 'I'm fine', he said, 'what's there to worry about. We are safe. The rest is only money'. His son Itzic said the housing estate in Holon was a 'family community... peaceful, a very sleepy place.' 'Everyone in Israel has been affected by the war [since October 7] but this is the closest it has ever got to this neighbourhood physically', he added. The MDA paramedics at the scene were still busy helping people with minor injuries and logistical issues, when the Telegraph left. First responders with MDA, like Batya Tugendhaft, 20, originally from North West London, were visibly exhausted but determined to carry on. 'It's the young that basically run this nation. We are cheap labour, but we do it for a sense of duty to our country and love. This is a true national service,' she said. Even in the darkest of times as a paramedic, 'there are tiny pockets of human connection' that make it worthwhile.
