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Young couple struck by lightning -- and hand-holding may have saved their lives

There was electricity in the air, millions of volts actually, when teens Dylan and Lexie walked through a Claremont neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

As the young couple strode the tree-lined streets in the Inland Empire community, a bolt of lightning shot from the sky and hit Dylan, passed through him to his girlfriend, Lexie, and into the ground, according to the couple’s interview with KCBS-TV.

Both came out of the incident with no apparent injuries. The station did not identify either juvenile by their last names.

“It was more of just kind of a shove, you know?