You Can Be Struck by Lightning Indoors: Teenage Girl Electrocuted While Charging Phone

Possibility of Lightning Penetrating Indoors Through Power Lines
Electrocuted by Electric Current While Using Mobile Phone at Home

A teenage girl living in Alabama, United States, was hospitalized after being electrocuted while using her mobile phone at home. Although the victim narrowly escaped serious injury and her life was not in danger, she experienced a traumatic incident, including temporary memory loss.

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According to reports from local media outlets in the United States, including the New York Post, on July 2 (local time), 19-year-old Lisa Henderson suffered an electric shock accident on the night of June 29 while lying in bed in her room, charging her mobile phone and browsing social networking services (SNS). At the time, storms were raging across Alabama, and it is believed that lightning generated by the storm entered Henderson's home through the electrical system and reached indoors.

Recalling the incident, Henderson said she heard a sudden loud noise and a vibrating sound in her ears, and felt an electric sensation that started at her fingertips and spread to her arm and shoulder. It appears that lightning struck near her home, traveled along the power lines, passed through the charger, and reached the device she was holding in her hand.

Henderson lost consciousness immediately after the electric shock and only regained awareness in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. However, at that time, she was so disoriented that she struggled even to state her name or age. Henderson shared, "It took me almost a minute to remember my age," describing the shock of the incident.

After receiving treatment at the hospital, Henderson experienced pain in her right wrist, arm, and chest, but her life was not in danger. Medical staff analyzed that because Henderson was lying on her right side at the time of the accident, the electric current did not pass directly through her heart. They explained that if she had been lying on her other side or had been slightly shorter, the current might have flowed closer to her heart, potentially resulting in fatal consequences.

Henderson's fianc?, Connor Welborn, said that she was emotionally devastated and sobbed after the accident. Despite the traumatic experience, Henderson recovered relatively quickly and said in an interview with local media, "I am just grateful to be alive."