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TAKEN BY PAUL STRATIS OVER THE EASTERN PROM IN PORTLAND.. FURTHER NORTH – OUR TOTAL WEATHER TEAM WAS TRACKING THUNDERSTORMS.. AND TODAY — A WILTON DAD IS SHARING HIS STORY – AFTER HE SAYS WIND CAUSED A POWER LINE TO COLLAPSE ON HIM AND HIS FAMILY. JACOB MURPHY REPORTS.. THIS THIS POLE RIGHT HERE IS THE POLE THAT HAD FALLEN OVER TUESDAY NIGHT… AS A WILTON MAN WAS WALKING HOME WITH HIS FAMILY. THE STRONG WINDS PUSHING THAT POLE OVER… IT WAS ABOUT RIGHT HERE WHERE HE WAS STANDING WHEN THOSE LIVE WIRES LANDED IN HIS ARMS. 12;55;40 “I’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED FEAR LIKE THAT EVER IN MY LIFE.” WHAT STARTED AS A BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY… CAME CRASHING DOWN FOR A FAMILY IN THE ARKAY MOBILE HOME PARK. “I’VE LIVED HERE MY “I’VE LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE AND I’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE LIKE THAT WEATHER THAT I HAD CAME THROUGH HERE,” SCOTT TOWER WAS WALKING HOME WITH HIS FAMILY FROM HIS BROTHERS HOME JUST DOWN THE STREET… WHEN A THUNDERSTORM CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE. 13;07;47 “THIS IS THE POLE THAT SNAPPED.” TOWERS SAYS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS A BLUR… “I WAS ABOUT HERE WITH “I WAS ABOUT HERE WITH MY SON. AND AS THE POWER LINES CAME DOWN, AS WHEN I SHOVED HIM FORWARD, AND WHEN I SHOVED HIM FORWARD, THE LINES DROPPED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. “THE LINES LITERALLY FELL, LIKE, IN MY HANDS LIKE THIS, AND I AND I JUST I HAD TO HOLD ON TO THEM BECAUSE MY SON WAS RIGHT THERE. AND WHEN I HELD ON HIM LIKE THIS, IT THREW ME BACKWARDS ABOUT 4 OR 5FT OFF MY FEET ONTO THE GROUND, AND I COMPLETELY BLACKED OUT.” HIS BROTHER AND NEIGHBORS CAME RUSHING TO HIS SIDE. “I HAD SEEN HIM “I HAD SEEN HIM COLLAPSE ON THE GROUND, AND ME AND HIS BROTHER WENT OVER TO TRY AND SEE. HE WASN’T BREATHING, HE WASN’T MOVING.” “I “I GRABBED HIM BY THE HEAD AND I SHOOK HIM. AND I’M LIKE, IT SCARED ME. IT WAS THE SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER BEEN THROUGH.” TOWERS’ WAS BACK HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL ON TUESDAY. HE HAS TO WEAR A HEART MONITOR… AND IS IN A LOT OF PAIN… BUT THANKS TO HIS QUICK ACTION, HIS SON WASN’T HURT. HE SAYS HIS STORY IS A REMINDER OF MOTHER NATURE’S STRENGTH. “IT JUST MAKES YOU “IT JUST MAKES YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WITHIN A DROP OF A DIME, THE WEATHER HERE IN MAINE CAN CHANGE SO DRAMATICALLY LIKE THAT.” “TUESDAY “TUESDAY AFTERNOON, CREWS ARE WORKING ON GETTING THE POWERLINES FIXED IN THIS COMMUNITY. TOWER SAYS APART FROM SOME SCRAPES AND BRUISES, THE REST OF H
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Maine father saves his son from falling power lines knocked down by thunderstorm
‘I’ve never experienced fear like that ever in my life’
What started as a pleasant spring day quickly came crashing down for one family in Wilton, Maine. Scott Towers was visiting his brother’s home with his wife and three kids Tuesday afternoon. Their short walk home quickly turned for the worse when thunderstorms caught them by surprise.”I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve never experienced anything like the weather that had come through here,” Towers said.His brother only lives about two houses down in the Arkay Mobile Home Park. It takes less than two minutes, but even in that short time, Towers says “It was like a bomb went off. The poles all started to snap and come down around us, and the trees were all started popping,” he said. “My wife had told our kids to run home because we really thought it was a tornado coming through. It was that extreme.”Towers admits what happened next was a blur. He was running home with his son when one power line fell nearby, and he could see that the power lines were going to land directly on him and his son.”I shoved him forward, and when I shoved him forward, the lines dropped right in front of me,” he said. “The lines literally fell in my hands, and I just had to hold on to them because my son was right there. When I held on him, it threw me backwards about four or five feet onto the ground, and I completely blacked out.”Towers’ brother and neighbors saw and heard what had happened and came rushing to his aid. “I had seen him collapse on the ground. Me and his brother went over to try and see. He wasn’t breathing, he wasn’t moving,” said Tyler Steadman, who lives across the street.His brother, Dustin Towers, says he attempted some chest compressions on him. Eventually, he was able to wake him. “I grabbed him by the head, and I shook him. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through.”Scott Towers was taken to the hospital, but thanks to his quick reflexes, the rest of his family only had minor scrapes and bruises. Towers says electricity had traveled through his hand out of his elbow.He was back home Wednesday morning, now with a heart monitor as a precaution.”I would do it time and time and time again. You know, it’s not necessarily that I went out of my way to grab . I had to catch it, or it was going to land on my son, and there was no question about that,” Towers said.
What started as a pleasant spring day quickly came crashing down for one family in Wilton, Maine. Scott Towers was visiting his brother’s home with his wife and three kids Tuesday afternoon. Their short walk home quickly turned for the worse when thunderstorms caught them by surprise.
“I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve never experienced anything like the weather that had come through here,” Towers said.
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His brother only lives about two houses down in the Arkay Mobile Home Park. It takes less than two minutes, but even in that short time, Towers says
“It was like a bomb went off. The poles all started to snap and come down around us, and the trees were all started popping,” he said. “My wife had told our kids to run home because we really thought it was a tornado coming through. It was that extreme.”
Towers admits what happened next was a blur. He was running home with his son when one power line fell nearby, and he could see that the power lines were going to land directly on him and his son.
“I shoved him forward, and when I shoved him forward, the lines dropped right in front of me,” he said. “The lines literally fell in my hands, and I just had to hold on to them because my son was right there. When I held on him, it threw me backwards about four or five feet onto the ground, and I completely blacked out.”
Towers’ brother and neighbors saw and heard what had happened and came rushing to his aid.
“I had seen him collapse on the ground. Me and his brother went over to try and see. He wasn’t breathing, he wasn’t moving,” said Tyler Steadman, who lives across the street.
His brother, Dustin Towers, says he attempted some chest compressions on him. Eventually, he was able to wake him. “I grabbed him by the head, and I shook him. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through.”
Scott Towers was taken to the hospital, but thanks to his quick reflexes, the rest of his family only had minor scrapes and bruises. Towers says electricity had traveled through his hand out of his elbow.
He was back home Wednesday morning, now with a heart monitor as a precaution.
“I would do it time and time and time again. You know, it’s not necessarily that I went out of my way to grab [the power line]. I had to catch it, or it was going to land on my son, and there was no question about that,” Towers said.
