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CRESTVIEW, Fla. (WKRG) — A Crestview man struck by lightning while kayaking has died, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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According to a news release, just before 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 31, FWC officers were alerted to a missing kayaker in Santa Rosa County.
They were told 20-year-old Michael Aiden Vargas had been kayaking on the Blackwater River when he was struck by lightning and fell from the kayak…