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Woman who survived lightning strike feels lucky to be alive
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Bognovitz, who was dazed, saw her 21-year-old sister lying face down on the stone steps, bleeding from the head and convulsing from a seizure. Horrified, Bognovitz flipped her over, and Hart stopped breathing.
Remembering her nursing training, she administered CPR until Hart's breath returned. Then Bognovitz used sternum rubs, another first-aid technique, to bring her around while a third hiker, a man they'd met in the tower, called 911 on a cellphone before running to a nearby ranger station.
The women recalled their ordeal Friday in telephone interviews as the restored, three-story tower reopened at Washington Monument State Park in rural western Maryland more than 10 months after the June 18 incident.
"It was horrendous," Bognovitz, 26, a veterinary technician from Alexandria, Virginia, told The Associated Press.
She spent just a few hours in the hospital. Her sister fared far worse. - AP
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