{"id":472223,"date":"2025-06-20T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/a-lightning-bolt-struck-a-teenager-during-a-storm-in-new-yorks-central-park\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:54:59","slug":"a-lightning-bolt-struck-a-teenager-during-a-storm-in-new-yorks-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/a-lightning-bolt-struck-a-teenager-during-a-storm-in-new-yorks-central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A lightning bolt struck a teenager during a storm in New York’s Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York.- <\/strong>A 15-year-old boy miraculously survived<\/strong> after being struck by lightning in Central Park, <\/strong>when the electrical storm that hit New York City yesterday afternoon began.<\/p>\n\n\nThis is Yassin Khalifa<\/strong>, a 2nd-year high school student, who\u00a0was enjoying a picnic<\/strong>\u00a0with friends near East Meadow (Upper East Side) when the storm began around 3:40 p.m. on Thursday.\n\n\u201cI leaned against a tree and said to them: \u2018Oh, guys, let’s weather the storm,\u2019<\/strong> which, in retrospect, perhaps wasn’t the best idea,\u201d Khalifa said last night to ABC News<\/a><\/em> from the hospital.\n\nAccording to the data, the fall rendered him unconscious for a few minutes<\/strong>, but he was alert when he was taken by ambulance to the Weill Cornell Medical Center.\n\n\n

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Khalifa<\/strong> remains receiving treatment for\u00a0second-degree burns on the neck and leg\u00a0<\/strong>and expects to recover completely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\u201cApparently, I was very lucky, because my spine was directly against the tree and I didn’t suffer any nerve damage. <\/strong>So I haven’t lost any kind of motor function. I’m very happy about that,\u201d the young man detailed.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>A lightning strike kills at least 15 people in a village in northwestern South Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nFrom early on, the National Weather Service (NWS)<\/a><\/strong> had warned about intermittent severe rains that would fall yesterday in New York and the tri-state area. Later, damage was reported, including fallen trees on cars in Ridgewood and Maspeth, Queens<\/strong> (NYC); and also in Cranford, New Jersey.\n\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),<\/strong> the probability of being struck by lightning in a given year is less than 1 in 1 million; and almost 90% of lightning victims survive.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York.- A 15-year-old boy miraculously survived after being struck by lightning in Central Park, when the electrical storm that hit New York City yesterday afternoon began. This is Yassin Khalifa, a 2nd-year high school student, who\u00a0was enjoying a picnic\u00a0with friends near East Meadow (Upper East Side) when the storm began around 3:40 p.m. on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":472224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[24269,41348,40950,40466],"class_list":["post-472223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-central-park","tag-lightning","tag-storm","tag-teenager"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YQv","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-62-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-62-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}