During a violent thunderstorm, a father of three from Maine saved his son from a falling power line.
On May 5, Scott Towers, his wife, and their children were caught in a sudden change in weather while heading home from his brother’s house outside of Augusta.
Towers told WMTW, “I’ve lived here my entire life, and I’ve never experienced anything like the weather that had come through here.”
Two houses down from his brother’s site in the same neighbourhood, Towers and his family reside in Wilton’s Arkay Mobile Home Park.
The wind was so severe that the poles supporting the active powerlines above them snapped noisily as they made their short trek home.
We genuinely believed that a tornado was approaching, therefore my wife had advised our children to flee home. He remarked, “It was that extreme.”
The terrifying noise was “like a bomb went off,” according to Towers.
Without thinking, he snatched one sizzling cable that was falling directly on his son with his bare hands.
While walking home from his brother’s house with his wife and kids, Scott Towers experienced an unexpected storm.
Tower hurried to save his son when he saw an active power line falling directly on top of him. “I shoved him forward, and when I shoved him forward, the lines dropped right in front of me,” he said.
“My son was right there, so I had to hold on to the lines that literally fell into my hands.”
“Towers said, “It threw me backwards about four or five feet onto the ground when I held on to them, and I completely blacked out.”
Towers asserted that electricity passed through his hand and out of his elbow.
He was left on the ground, unconscious. The courageous father had slumped and was not breathing or moving, according to neighbours who saw the horrible aftermath.
After starting chest compressions, his brother Dustin was able to bring him awake. “I grabbed him by the head, and I shook him.” He told the site, “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through.”
Towers’ injuries were addressed after he was taken to the hospital. The following day, he was permitted to return home while wearing a heart monitor.
On Tuesday, wind speeds reached up to 15 miles per hour, according to Time and Date.
The family resided in Wilton, Maine’s Arkay Mobile Home Park, just a short distance from Towers’ brother.
Towers claimed he would catch the power line again in a heartbeat, despite the fact that he is still in terrible pain.
“You know, I didn’t necessarily go out of my way,” he remarked. There was no doubt that I had to catch it or it would fall on my son.
With only minor cuts and bruises, the rest of the family managed to escape the storm.
In the wake of the unexpected and hazardous storm, city electric workers are attempting to repair the numerous downed power lines.
For additional information, the Towers family and Central Maine Power were approached by The Daily Mail.
