PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Pinellas County teacher is focusing on gratitude after a lightning strike during a Thanksgiving trip to Peru nearly cost him his life.
James Fernandez, an eighth-grade science teacher at Palm Harbor Middle School, is now home in Clearwater after nearly four months of medical care in Peru and the United States.
Fernandez said he was traveling with his wife and their now 9-month-old son, along with family friends, when the trip took a sudden turn…