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Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable' Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable'
Life Without NJ DPW Worker Struck By Lightning Is 'Unimaginable' There's been an outpouring of support for a Woodbridge Department of Public Works employee struck by lightning this week. Eric Baumgartner survived the strike after a Woodbridge police officer performed life-saving CPR. Baumgartner was painting lines for the soccer field at Iselin Middle School on Wednesday, June 14, and didn't hear anything over the loud noise of the machine he was using when the lightning strike came down, a GoFundMe page says. Eric was unresponsive and had no pulse when Woodbridge Police Officer RJ McPartland revived him. In Eric’s words, "He thought he was dying …

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by Jon Craig