A lookup for a lacking pupil is underway on a Florida lake just after a lightning strike prompted a rowing team's boat to capsize Thursday afternoon.

5 pupils with the North Orlando Rowing Club have been practising on Lake Fairview in Orlando close to 5:50 p.m. when lightning reportedly struck the area, according to town spokeswoman Jennifer DeSantis.

One college student went missing during the incident and a different was transported to AdventHealth Orlando in not known affliction. The circumstances of the remaining 3 college students had been not immediately launched. Authorities also did not specify their ages.

To start with responders go on the search for a missing rower on Lake Fairview in Orlando subsequent a lightning strike Thursday afternoon. (Deborah Choe/WHD 35)

About 1:40 a.m. Friday, the Orlando Fireplace Department's dive teams had been reportedly wrapping up for the night time as Seminole County dive crews took around the search with sonar technologies, in accordance to WHD 35.

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WHD 35's Deborah Choe noted early Friday early morning that initially responders would not say if they had been conducting a rescue or restoration operation.

In a news meeting at the scene, Orlando Hearth Government Deputy Chief Ian Davis claimed there are a good deal of currents that "have the capability to transfer the sufferer." Davis included crews are going back again and forth to make certain they usually are not lacking something.

Nevertheless the rowers have not been discovered, the group's Fb website page describes the club as serving boys and girls ages 12 to 18.

An Orlando police officer talks to women of all ages in the vicinity of Lake Fairview as crews research for a missing rower next a lightning strike on Sept. 15, 2022. (WOFL)

The club's posted program showed the center university and JV/Varsity teams had been out on the lake practising at the time of the strike.

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An Orlando police officer walks towards a firefighter as to start with responders lookup for a rower who went missing next a lightning strike on Lake Fairview. (WOFL)

The South Orlando Rowing Association posted the subsequent statement on Facebook late Thursday evening as the research for the missing rower ongoing:

"Our hearts go out to our close friends at North Orlando Rowing. Geronimo and his full workforce have been genuine pals to our club, and we are asking that all of our rowers, mother and father, and any individual else who views this post has them in their ideas."

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Authorities think the five learners were being from various schools in central Florida.