Four people are critically injured after they were struck by lightning near the White House on Aug. 4, according to emergency officials.
According to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, at 6.53 p.m. the department “received a report of a lightning strike at Lafayette park with multiple patients.”
Lafayette Square, a seven-acre public park that lies directly north of the White House, is often crowded with visitors, especially in the summer months.
The lightning struck the four people near a tree that stands yards away from the fence that surrounds the presidential residence and offices.
“When we arrived we found a total of four patients, there were two adult males and two adult females,” Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for the D.C. Fire and EMS department, said in a statement posted on Twitter. “All four were suffering from critical life threatening injuries.”…