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A middle school student in Thornton was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure Tuesday after he complained that he was shocked by a fallen weather balloon.
The incident happened over the noon hour at Niver Creek Middle School, 9450 Pecos St., said Chad McCollum, a Thornton Fire Department spokesman.
The balloon, owned and flown by the National Weather Service, landed in the schoolyard, and “a couple of kids took it inside on their lunch break,” McCollum said.
One of the boys complained that he had been shocked when he picked up the balloon, and he told school staffers and firefighters that his arm was numb, McCollum said. McCollum said the Weather Service told fire investigators that the balloons and data units are “harmless.”
