“In terms of our response he was in hospital conscious and breathing again within 24 minutes,” he said. The spokesman praised staff at Dorcan Recreation Centre and school first aiders who came to his rescue. “He suffered potentially life threatening injuries from the electrocution.” We took the boy to Great Western Hospital and arrived at 3.34pm. “Our crews took over on arrival and they had a return of spontaneous circulation. “There were first aiders from the school performing CPR as the boy had gone into a cardiac arrest. “We had a paramedic on the scene at 3.16pm, backed up by an ambulance crew a few minutes later. “Staff from Dorcan Recreation Centre and a parent performed CPR and he was taken to hospital with burns.”Ī spokesman for Great Western Ambulance Service said: “We received a 999 call from the school regarding a pupil, believed to be an 11-year-old boy, reportedly being struck by lightning. He was standing next to a lamp post when the bolt struck it and him too. It only struck once.”Īn eyewitness added: “A Year Seven boy was waiting in the car park to get collected. There was a really bright light and then the bang. She said: “It was very loud and sounded like it was right over head, when the thunder came myself and another teacher just screamed. “The whole school has been very sensible about it, we’ve spoken to them about what happened and they know it was a freak accident.Įnglish teacher Pippa Smith, 24, said the clash of thunder made her and a fellow teacher scream in shock. “There were very few children around the car park waiting to be picked up by their parents, only about three or four,” he said. He added that, luckily, few children witnessed the incident. “It can only have taken about 30 minutes from when I called them.” “The ambulance arrived a few minutes later and they got his heart going before they took him to the emergency department. “It didn’t look like he was breathing to me at that point, but I’m not a medical professional. “There were three or four staff from the leisure centre out there, they were administering CPR and there was defibrillator next to them as well. “I rang 999 straight away and then ran out to see what was going on. “After recovering from the shock I realised there were staff running to the corner and I could clearly see them giving someone CPR. Storm clouds gather ominously over the school yesterday after the lad was hit by the powerful bolt of electricity “It was quite shocking and the whole of the school shook. “Then all of a sudden there was a phenomenal bang and a lightning flash all at the same time. He said: “It was very odd, it had just started raining and before school finished and there was no hint of thunder.
Yesterday the school’s headteacher Scott Sissons described how the lightning bolt ‘shook the whole school’. The incident happened at 3.10pm on Wednesday at Dorcan Academy in Swindon, Wilts., where Joe had been a pupil for just three weeks. “We would also like to ask media to be left alone at this time so that we can focus our energies on supporting Joe.” “We would particularly like to express our gratitude to the PE staff and leisure centre staff who came to Joe’s aid, we owe a huge amount of thanks to them. In a statement issued from his bedside at Frenchay Hospital, they said: “We would like to thank everyone for their support.
Joe’s family today praised first aiders who came to his rescue. He was later transferred to a specialist burns unit at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. Joe was rushed to Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wilts., with severe burns and “potentially life-threatening injuries”. Dorcan Academy in Swindon Wiltshire where Joe Compton was struck by lightning while waiting for his mother to collect him He immediately went into cardiac arrest and first aiders from a neighbouring sports centre rushed to administer CPR until paramedics arrived six minutes later. Joe Compton was waiting in the car park for his nan to pick him up when the bolt hit a lamp post he was standing next to.
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