PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Jesse Getford knows all three of the linemen who were electrocuted Tuesday in Pinellas County while installing new power poles, but he is closest with Matt Waldrop, who recruited him to become a lineman, too.
“(He just said, ‘it might be fun for you, you know, get to hang out with the guys,’” he recalled Waldrop saying. “We’d spend a lot of time working together, and, I mean, we always had a good time, kept it light, it was always fun.”
Which is why he’s struggling to comprehend having to make a GoFundMe page for Waldrop while he remains hospitalized at Tampa General Hospital…