{"id":2589,"date":"2016-07-16T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2016-07-16T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T00:38:30","slug":"women-struck-by-lightning-in-point-pleasant-beach-expected-to-be-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/women-struck-by-lightning-in-point-pleasant-beach-expected-to-be-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Struck by Lightning in Point Pleasant Beach Expected to be OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_371\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police Pleasant Beach police say two women struck by lightning within minutes of each other are expected to survive and recover from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from police, the borough&#8217;s first responders received two separate reports of people being struck by lightning on the beach and boardwalk. The first occurred at 2:53 p.m.; the second occurred at 3:01 p.m. Storms were passing by the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p>During the first incident, a 63-year-old woman was struck as she was leaving the beach, but remained conscious as she was being taken to the hospital.\u00a0The second incident occurred on Ocean Avenue as a 54-year-old woman was in her vehicle. She\u00a0was also conscious during\u00a0transport to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries to both women were described as &#8220;minor&#8221; by officials and both are expected to recover.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/women-struck-by-lightning-in-point-pleasant-beach-expected-to-be-ok\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Pleasant Beach police say two women struck by lightning within minutes of each other are expected to survive and recover from the incident. According to a statement from police, the borough&#8217;s first responders received two separate reports of people being struck by lightning on the beach and boardwalk. The first occurred at 2:53 p.m.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,15,17],"tags":[29,664,540,376,20,32,665],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county","category-shore-environment","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-lightning-strike","tag-ortley-beach-news","tag-point-pleasant-beach","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-seaside-park-nj-news","tag-struck-by-lightning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-FL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}