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A 14-year-old boy recently died in Texas after “stepping in a puddle” that had a submerged extension cord running through it. There had been heavy thunderstorms that week and the South Texas region was experiencing heavy flooding that submerged an extension cord that was powering a mobile home.

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According to a Facebook post on the Hidalgo County Fire Marshal’s Office, someone had stretched a power cord from a house to a nearby trailer, laying it on the ground, which with the torrential rains had become submerged. While there are a few conflicting reports as to whether the teenager had been merely stepping in the puddle or had been trying to unplug the cord at the time, what is clear is that he was electrocuted because of it.

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