Police released the name of the teenager who was killed after he was struck by lightning in a West Valley park Saturday night.
Marion Toko, 16, West Bountiful, was killed about 7:55 p.m. while standing on a hill with several other teens at Hunter Park, near 6000 W. 3550 South, West Valley Police Sgt. Dalan Taylor said.
A bolt of lightning hit Toko and his brother, 18-year-old Mone Toko. Marion Toko was pronounced dead at Pioneer Valley Hospital.
His brother was jolted "hard enough to knock him out. He slid down the grass," Taylor said. Mone Toko was released from the hospital hours after the incident.
The brothers were at a family reunion. They were standing on the hill with five to 10 other teens. "They were sliding down the hill on wet grass," Taylor said.
Lightning hit some of the other teenagers, but they were not seriously injured, Taylor said.
The hill was only about 20 feet high. "There wasn't much of a hill. But they were high enough. It was a very unlucky thing," National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Gibson said.
During a storm, people need to make sure they are not the highest object in the area. As soon as people hear thunder, they need to take shelter in a building or vehicle, because they're close enough to be struck by lightning, Gibson said.
Although Utah does not receive much rain, it does receive numerous thunderstorms. Lightning is the leading weather-related killer in the state, Gibson said.
In Farmington, city crews and residents spent Sunday cleaning up from a mudslide on Farmington's east bench. About six streets near 500 north received up to 4 feet of mud the night before, Farmington Police Cpl. Dale Scow said.
Crews and residents were successful at keeping the mud in streets, yards and sidewalks. Only one house had minor flooding, Scow said.
"We got pounded with the rain in a short period of time, in our burn-out area, the mountains couldn't hold it. It was saturated," Scow said.
A wildfire in the mountains near Farmington Canyon last summer consumed vegetation that prevented erosion. Farmington's first mudslide after that fire was in April near Compton Road. Saturday's mudslide occurred in a different area, south of the canyon, the same area where a seven houses were lost in the flooding of 1983.
While city crews moved mud with backhoes, neighbors worked with shovels and buckets. Wayne Kartchner was away when the mountain released the muddy earth but learned about it when he returned home. He lives a couple blocks from the affected area. "I changed out of my suit and grabbed a shovel," he said.
Sandbags were stacked outside houses and on street corners. Some sandbags will remain in the neighborhood's most vulnerable spots "as long as needed," Scow said.
Elsewhere, several cities had minor flooding, such as Park City, where water accumulated at street intersections. Park City emergency dispatchers reported one house got flooded Saturday night.
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