Selfless Utah dad killed by lightning strike trying to help stranded boaters off Florida coast
US News Selfless Utah dad killed by lightning strike trying to help stranded boaters off Florida coast By Chris Bradford Published Sep. Add The New York Post on Google A selfless Utah dad was killed after being struck by lightning while helping stranded boaters off the coast of Florida, his family said. Steve Matheson, 47, was jet skiing with his pal off the coast of Fort de Soto just before 6:35 p.m.
- ▪US News Selfless Utah dad killed by lightning strike trying to help stranded boaters off Florida coast By Chris Bradford Published Sep.
- ▪Add The New York Post on Google A selfless Utah dad was killed after being struck by lightning while helping stranded boaters off the coast of Florida, his family said.
- ▪Steve Matheson, 47, was jet skiing with his pal off the coast of Fort de Soto just before 6:35 p.m.
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| Original publisher | New York Post |
| Canonical URL | https://nypost.com/2026/09/01/us-news/utah-dad-steve-matheson-killed-by-lightning-strike-trying-to-help-stranded-boaters-off-florida-coast/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:25:00 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-01T07:41:11.537Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-01T07:41:11.537Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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