It's just something that happens occasionally. There were also other stretches of GTA-area highways, including the QEW, which flooded Monday night.Naturally, it's an accident. The Burlington area appeared to be hardest hit, with major flooding reported on Highway 407 at Guelph Line. “The likely impacts are the drainage systems on your roadways will be temporarily overwhelmed for a bit,” he said. Despite that, area waterways seem to have handled the deluge and flooding was at a minimum. Michael Heralall, of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, said the storm dumped between 20 mm and 30 mm of rain on the city in a short time. “They took care of the family, provided first aid treatment and kept everybody calm and took care of everybody else.” “They certainly did an excellent job,” he said. He also praised the police officer and park attendant. Peter Rotolo, Toronto EMS commander for District 5, said he’s never seen anything like the incident in his 40-year career. She called the police officer and park attendant heroes for their quick efforts to revive the family. “They were just lying there like they were frozen.” “They all went down together, it was so sudden,” she said. Michelle, who was metres away when the first strike hit, said she thought the family was dead. “It’s no good for the cardiovascular system. “I’ve never seen anything like this and I don’t wish to ever see anything like it again,” Muir said. Another ambulance had to be dispatched to the scene. The strike hit a nearby willow tree and the surge from the lightning bolt knocked out the electrical system onboard the ambulance, leaving it stranded. In fact, the other strike occurred just metres away when EMS arrived. Keep in mind, it’s a lightning strike, there’s a risk of more and there was another strike. “What strikes me about this is how unselfish both of them were.
“By this time it was just coming down in buckets, heavy,” he said. Muir said a police officer and city park attendant jumped into action, calling for paramedics and administering CPR. “I saw a big red flash,” said Conrad Muir. Witnesses said lightning struck the tree and the people underneath around 3 p.m. The family, reportedly three adults and a child, were seeking shelter from a fierce thunder storm under a tree in Morningside Park.
Do you know the victims? Contact the Toronto Sun city desk at 41 or e-mail family members were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries Monday after lightning struck them in a Scarborough park.
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