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Aug. 24, 2000
(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Two prison inmates were killed by lightning while fighting a fire yesterday in the Stansbury Mountains.
Four other prisoners suffered minor injuries.
Corrections spokesman Jack Ford said the deaths were the first the Flame-N-Go's program has had in its 22 years.
This six inmates were hit around 12:30 p.m. as they were seeking shelter from the lightning storm.
The two killed were 27-year-old Michael Todd Bishop, who had been serving time for a 1993 ATTEMPTED murder and was scheduled for parole in June 2002, and 26-year-old Rodgie Braithwaite, who was serving a sentence for automobile homicide and was scheduled for parole in October 2001.
Inmates treated and released were 31-year-old Ernest Chacon, 23-year-old Benjamin Taliulu and 25-year-old Anthony Duran. Thirty-four-year-old inmate Michael Lindsay was expected to be released from University Hospital today.
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