Lighting Strikes 2 Men in Annapolis

Two Annapolis men were hospitalized after apparently being struck by lightning on Wednesday.

Anne Arundel County Fire Department Division Chief Keith Swindle said units responded at 8:45 p.m. to the Bay Ridge Community Beach in the 100 block of River Drive and found two individuals in cardiac arrest. 

Bystanders started CPR, Swindle said. Fire officials transported two men, a 19-year-old and a 23-year-old to Anne Arundel Medical Center with serious and life-threatening injuries—where they remain this morning. 

"It it presumed the injuries sustained by the two men were from a lightning strike," Swindle said. 

Edgewater-Davidsonville Patch editor Kaitlyn Carr contributed to this article.