Loch Sheldrake, NY – Lightning Hits Stranded Boater, Her Rescuer

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    Photo illustration Lock Sheldrake lake taken July 18 2010 Photo Shimon GifterLoch Sheldrake, NY – Hatzolah responding to Morningside Park at Brickman Road for 2 boaters who were struck by lightening after a storm passed the area.

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    One boater a 22-year-old woman from New Jersey, Leah Nesha bas Baila Malka, apparently became stranded on a row boat with three other people.

    20-year-old Devin Corbit, a Morningside Park worker, went out in his row boat to assist the stranded people.

    A lightning strike knocked the two into the water.

    They were rescued by lifeguards and rushed by Hatzolah and Mobile-Medic to Catskill Regional Medical Center post cardiac arrest but conscious. But both are said to be in extremely critical condition.

    The pair to be transferred to Westchester Medical Center.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Great job by Hatzloah for bringing back both patients

    chmorrison
    chmorrison
    13 years ago

    I have just been listening on my scanners to the rescue operations. I had heard cardiac arrest and then I heard electrocution and then I heard two patients, so now that you have mentioned lightning I understand.

    I am glad the patients are still alive, and I hope they are able to be saved.

    ES85
    ES85
    13 years ago

    Wow! What a dispatcher! It takes quite professional skills to dispatch two cardiac arrests in the mountains while dispatching a fire in BP with reports of people trapped.
    GO ES85 GO!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Refuah Shleima to both of them,
    Any name??

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Refuah Shleima to both of them,
    Any name??

    13 years ago

    Please be Mispallel for Leah Nesha bas Baila Malka.

    I got 1-10

    Keep it going

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Please be Mispallel for Leah Nesha bas Baila Malka. Other person was employee from Morning Side park.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Car 1 came good to use!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    These two patients were brought out of cardiac arrest using a piece of equipment called a defibulator.
    The human heart has something called a SA Node that gives off an electrical impulse which causes the heart to beat. When the rhythm is interrupted, either by a block in the heart, or, as in this case, by an outside electrical impulse, the heart goes into an un sustainable rhythm called V-Fib.
    The way to reset the hearts rhythm is by giving it a controlled shock using a defibulator.
    This equipment is expensive and unfortunately, not all Hatzalah members are equipped with this life saving device.
    You can change that.
    Go to http://www.hatzalah.org/donate and donate today.

    sechel hayoshor
    sechel hayoshor
    13 years ago

    Don’t know where you get your info but leah is in VERY critical condition. She has been transferred to westchester and is still unconscious. Please continue to be mispallel.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    #8 What&#8 217;s car 1 anyway??

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Thanx to chaim shia k. From catskill hatzolah, he’s the best

    Liberty
    Liberty
    12 years ago

    The boating business in the picture is at a different lake the business pictured is Loch Sheldrake Boating on 52 in Loch Sheldrake. My family, friends and i have been going boating at the business pictured for more then 30 years and i have never had any problems.