The Brief
- Jeanne Menna survived going into cardiac arrest after a massive lightning strike hit a tree, her car and then her body in a Marietta church parking lot.
- Marietta police officers and firefighters rushed to the scene in the pouring rain to perform CPR and use a defibrillator to bring her back to life.
- Fully recovered weeks later, Menna met with her first responders to thank the people she calls “God’s angles on Earth.”
MARIETTA, Ga. – A woman who survived a lightning strike returned to a Marietta church to thank the first responders who pulled her from the brink of death.
Jeanne Menna went into cardiac arrest last month when lightning tore through a parking lot, but quick-thinking police officers and firefighters successfully brought her back to life.
Marietta church strike
What we know:
A lightning strike blew a parking lot tree into pieces before hitting Jeanne Menna as she loaded items into her car at St. Joseph’s Church in Marietta May 6. The strike sent Menna into cardiac arrest, leaving her unconscious, face down, not breathing and without a pulse amid a field of debris.…