If you've been praying for Hunter Alexander, the 24‑year‑old Entergy lineman who was electrocuted in Louisiana while restoring power after the ice storm, you need to know about Denny McGuff because lightning just struck the lineman community twice. Just days after Hunter's catastrophic injuries left him fighting to save both arms in a Shreveport ICU, Denny McGuff was electrocuted while working as a lineman to restore power for thousands still devastated by the same storm, and now he's fighting for his life at UAB in Birmingham with his left arm already partially amputated. Like Hunter, Denny went up in the bucket to bring light and heat back to strangers, and like Hunter, a powerful electric shock tore through his body and changed everything in an instant.
Anyone who knows the McGuffs says they're the kind of people who do anything for anybody, the same thing people say about Hunter, and now both families are living hour by hour, surgery by surgery, with no clear answers yet.