Lightning strike burns 23 children at Gilmanton Scout camp
>>Twenty-three Scouts, ages 12-16, and three adult counselors who sought shelter in lean-to suffered electric-shock burns after lightning struck the lean-to at Camp Bell Boy Scout Camp in Gilmanton Monday night. None of the injures were life-threatening; most were minor. Six of the 23 suffered "somewhat serious" burns, Fire Chief David Parenti said. Seven of the Scouts had very minor burns, he said. "All 23 of them had burns of some sort," Parenti said. "But even the six (burn victims), we worry about the chest, but they weren't burned too bad, really." Parenti said he received a call at about 7:30 p.m. from camp officials saying there were numerous campers injured when lightning struck a lean-to.