Girl Hit By Lightning Dies In Florida Hospital
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FORT MORGAN (CBSMiami/AP) — A girl, struck by lightning, has died, Florida hospital officials said.
Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department Chief Glenn Stevens said a 12-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday after being struck by lightning while she played volleyball on the Fort Morgan peninsula in Alabama.
Mike Burke, spokesman for Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida told Al.com Tuesday that the girl, identified as Megan Nickell of North Little Rock, Arkansas, died.
National Weather Service lightning specialist John Jensenius says Nickell's death is the third lightning fatality this year in Alabama and the 17th in the country.
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