Lightning kills lifeguard at Jersey Shore, injures 7 others
CBSN
A young lifeguard was killed and seven other people, including three other lifeguards, were injured when lightning struck a Jersey Shore beach Monday afternoon, authorities said.
The victim was identified as 19-year-old Keith Pinto, a lifeguard in Berkeley Township, CBS New York reported. It marked the second death of a young lifeguard at the Jersey Shore in a little over a week.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.