Tim Yaeger, coordinator of Genesee County Emergency Services, reminded us that this is Lightning Safety Awareness Week and notes that the National Weather Service has updated its Lightning Safety page <http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/>
The page contains not only information about lightning safety, but the science of lightning, the health effect on victims, download-able posters and brochures, and much more.
There have already been seven lightning fatalities this year.
<http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/fatalities.htm>
In Western New York, there have been 32 documented injuries by lightning since 1996. Monroe, Niagara and Erie counties have each seen seven injuries; three injuries each in Ontario and Cayuga counties; two injuries in Cattaraugus County; and one injury in Wyoming, Livingston and Chautauqua counties.
