Horrified screams heard on 911 call moments after Florida mother and one of her two-year-old twin daughters were both struck and killed by lightning

Horrified bystanders inundated police with pleas for help after a mother and one of her two-year-old twin daughters were struck and killed by lightning. 

Kenya Glasgow, 31, was walking down the street in Margate, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her two-year-old daughter, Kennedi, when a thunderstorm broke out on August 23.

They were struck just before 2.30pm, and a resident called 911 after finding them on the sidewalk in the area of 7941 Northwest 1st Street, police have previously told the Daily Mail. 

In harrowing audio from the dispatch calls police obtained, at least one woman could be heard screaming.

‘Oh my God, somebody just got struck by lightning!’ the woman said in the call obtained by NBC South Florida.

‘A lady and her baby just got struck by lightning. They’re down,’ another caller reported, while a third described the devastation at the scene.

‘I heard somebody yelling and I jumped up and there was a big… a woman and a baby on the ground. They looked like they were getting out of the car, and it’s lightning really bad,’ a woman could be heard telling dispatch officers.

‘The people are losing their minds,’ the woman continued. ‘That’s why I’m on the phone with you. They’re on the ground. There’s a baby and a woman.’

‘Oh my God, please, God, Jesus, please, protect this family, give them the strength,’ the caller then prayed.

Officers from the Margate Police Department then responded along with Margate Fire Rescue and immediately began attempting CPR on the mother and child. 

When their efforts were unsuccessful, Kenya was rushed to North Broward Medical Center, while Kennedi was taken to Broward Health Medical Center. 

‘Tragically, despite the life-saving efforts of first responders and medical personnel, both victims were pronounced deceased shortly after arriving at the hospitals,’ police said. 

Following the tragedy, Kenya’s widower husband Kameron Glasgow lamented their horrific luck, saying the odds of being struck by lightning were ‘1 in 1.2 million.’ 

‘S*** can’t be real,’ the grieving father said.

He later explained that the family had just arrived at his aunt’s house that afternoon when the weather took a turn for the worse, and he and Kenya tried to rush Kennedi and her twin sister, Kensli, inside the house.

‘I was right there. I got the actual aftershock from the ground,’ Kameron said, describing it as ‘the worst feeling in the world.’

‘And to turn around and see your wife and daughter there, lifeless, even worse,’ he said at a news conference.

Kensli was still inside the vehicle at the time. 

She must now live the rest of her life without her ‘best friend,’ Kameron said on social media, as he lives without his own ‘best friend,’ his wife.

‘After I lost my father a few years ago, I learned a very valuable lesson and that’s to never question God,’ he noted. 

‘My babies didn’t suffer. I’m hurt we are hurt but if you gotten the chance to feel that beautiful light my wife and daughter brought into your life cherish it. 

‘It’s there for a reason. It gives us all the blueprint to just love others and always remember it doesn’t take much to be kind.’

Thunderstorms are frequent in southern Florida, especially through the summer rainy season from June through September, though lightning rarely claims lives.  

Margate residents told NBC6 the fatal storm on Sunday unfolded like a regular rainstorm until a lightning strike hit so close to their homes that their furniture shook.

One of the men who called 911 then said he saw Kenya and her daughter had burn marks on their bodies, and they were emanating smoke.

‘I told one of the family members we need to slip her over to perform CPR, but she had two holes in her chest, and thank God the ambulance was coming down the street,’ he recalled. 

‘I said, “They’re here, they’re here,” and I directed him to the baby, and they took the baby right away and a second ambulance came for the mother,’ the man said.

Prince Moody, Glasgow’s neighbor, also spoke to CBS News Miami about how he rushed his own family inside the home when he heard roaring thunder and saw an orange flash in the sky.  

‘My son said to me, “Hey, Dad. I think somebody got hit. There’s a lady on the floor,”‘ Moody told the outlet.

‘And I’m like, “What? No way. Stop, man.” And he said, “No, look.”‘ 

When Moody peeked outside the window, he saw a lifeless body on the ground.

The neighbor added that he rushed across the street to try and help the family, but it was too late.

‘As I get closer, there’s also a toddler lying a couple of feet from the mother,’ Moody said, describing the scene as ‘charred.’

‘It’s a scene that I never want to see again,’ he added.