An Ice Bucket Challenge nearly proved deadly for Kentucky firefighters after they were shocked by a power line while helping dump water on a university's marching band.
Campbellsville's fire captain was critically injured and a second firefighter was hospitalized in fair condition after their fire truck's aerial ladder struck Campbellsville University's main power line late Thursday morning, according to local reports.
The firefighters had just finished spraying a group of students below them with water and were preparing to return to the fire house when they knocked out the power to the entire campus, reported Statter911.
Down below two firefighters were also jolted and transported to Taylor Regional Hospital for treatment. They have since been released.
The two firefighters airlifted to University of Louisville Hospital have since been identified as Campbellsville Fire Captain Tony Grider and firefighter Simon Quinn.
The campus's Baptist Campus Ministry is planning a prayer vigil for the firefighters Thursday night.
'We express heartfelt sympathy and prayers for the families of the firefighters who were injured,' the school's president, Michael V. Carter, said in a statement later.
No students were reported as injured.
The Ice Bucket Challenge is a charity stunt that aims to raise money and awareness for Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
ngolgowski@nydailynews.com
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