The recent lightning incident at King Edward the 7th School has caused some concern for parents as to what to do in such an emergency and how to prevent such incidents from happening in future.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred late afternoon on Tuesday the 12th<\/sup> of February.\u00a0 Although details were sketchy surrounding the incident, it was revealed the 9 boys were pulling the cricket pitch cover when the lightning struck.\u00a0 Two boys sustained serious injuries and according to sources had no pulse and were not breathing when assisted by an Advanced Life Support paramedic who is a parent at the school. The other boys sustained moderate injuries and were also transported to Milpark Hospital for observation and later discharged. The two boys who were critically injured remain in ICU under critical watch. Lightning strikes are dangerous as they often cause cardiac arrest due to the high voltage, they can also cause broken bones and failure and burns to organs. The quick action of the paramedic on the scene essentially saved the lives of the boys. \u00a0The sooner CPR is started the better the chances of survival.<\/p>\n Remember you can\u2019t tell from the outside what is happening inside the body.\u00a0 Follow the steps of prevention in a lightning emergency. Knowing how to do CPR can save a person who is in cardiac arrest as it did for the two boys at King Edward the 7th School.<\/p>\n Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The recent lightning incident at King Edwards School has caused some concern for parents as to what to do in such an emergency and how to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":353606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360330,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions\/360330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Protect yourself from lightning by:<\/h2>\n
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What to do if your child or a person gets electrocuted?<\/h2>\n
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