Teens badly burned
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Published on August 12, 2002, INTELLIGENCER
JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.)
Teens badly burned by electrified line
Victims were playing on top of railroad car
Two 17-year-old boys were seriously injured Saturday night after
being burned with 14,000 volts of electricity while they were on
the roof of a railroad car parked on tracks near the 700 block of
New Holland Avenue.
Jeff Klein and Brett Birdwell, both of Stroudsburg, Monroe County,
suffered severe burns shortly before 10:20 p.m. after contacting
an Amtrak rail line cable, said Battalion Chief Scott Bonholtzer of
Lancaster city's fire department.
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The entire story goes on to read that apparently these young men were
SKATEBOARDING on top of the Amtrak train and came in contact with the wire. Submitted on 08/28/2002
Submitted by:
eightysgrl@aol.com
Reference:
Intelligencer Journal 8/12/02
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