An Electrifying Wedding
Daily News columnist Dennis McCarthy attends the wedding of Howard Hull and Kristen Word, who went through with their nuptials despite a recent accident involving 4,000 volts of electricity...
Howard, the groom, was standing outside in the hallway with his best man, an IV line carrying medication into his left hand to keep the circulation going.The apprentice line mechanic for the Burbank Water and Power Department touched a couple of electrical lines a week and a half ago that were supposed to have been de-energized. They weren't.
More than 4,000 volts of electricity entered Howard's body through his chin and exited through his left hand, basically blowing off two fingertips.
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The couple could have postponed the wedding until Howard got out of the hospital in a week or so. But when you've been zapped by 4,000 volts and are still around to talk about it, it puts things in perspective, Howard says.
"It makes you realize some things are important; others are not. Kristen showed me incredible love and strength through all this."