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Lightning strike caught on video, 22-year-old woman in ICU

Terrifying moments of a lightning strike in Wisconsin were caught on camera. 

It happened at the Country Thunder Music Festival in Kenosha, Wisconsin.


Kayla Byrne was taking cover under her tent the moment that bolt of lightning hit.

“It felt like my heart was in my stomach and I don’t know, everything, all my energy was gone,” Kayla said.

She caught it all on camera. Ten minutes later, she and her friends found 22-year-old Brittney Prehn lying unconscious, bleeding from her ear.

“Her phone was completely shattered and she was just laying on her stomach completely unresponsive but she did have a pulse,” Kayla said.

The lightning strike fried Prehn’s the cell phone and her boot.

“I could tell that she was breathing so that was good but she was still unresponsive at the time,” Kayla said.

According to a family member, the young woman is currently in an ICU in Chicago. Prehn is from Woodstock, Illinois about 20 miles southwest of Kenosha.

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