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11. Seek shelter in buildings. If no buildings are available, your best protection is a ditch, cave, canyon, or under head-high clumps of trees in open forest glades. 12. When there is no shelter, avoid the highest object in the area. If only isolated trees are nearby, your best protection is to crouch in the open, keeping as far away from isolated trees as the trees are high. ^ 13. Avoid hilltops, open spaces, wire fences, metal clotheslines, exposed sheds, and any electrically conductive elevated objects. And here’s where you can “dodge” that lightning bolt: .
14. If you feel an electrical charge — if your hair stands on end or your skin tingles " lightning may be about to strike you. Drop to the ground immediately.
“Knowledge of what to do when people have stopped breathing because of electrical shocks can save many lives,” Mr. Goetz says. “The Red Cross offers free first aid courses through its chapters. I wish golfers — or for that matter, anyone who leads an active, outdoor life — would invest 15 minutes of their time by paying a visit to the nearest Red Cross chapter to get the full story.”
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