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MERIDIAN — Residents in a north Meridian neighborhood are devastated by the Saturday accidental electrocution of Anthony Bartlett, 37. Bartlett, of 3416 50th St., died shortly before noon while trying to lower a television cable into a daughter's bedroom, said Clayton Cobler, Lauderdale County deputy coroner. "It was just a freak accident," Cobler said. "The air compressing unit outside had a short in it, and when it kicked on it shot 240 amps of electricity through the air ducts. He just happened to be laying over one of them at the time." Cobler said Bartlett's wife, Kristy, had been waiting for her husband to feed her the cable wire when she heard a strange noise. "She went up to see what was going on and when she put her hand on him she got shocked," he said. "It more or less pushed her away from him. She went and got a neighbor who turned off the breakers and called 911." Neighbor Sharon White said she arrived home to find emergency vehicles lining 50th Street. "About a dozen neighbors who were home when it happened were trying to comfort his wife, and the people who could not get to Kristy were comforting each other, even those neighbors who seldom spoke. There were people who really didn't know each other, acquaintances, who were holding each other. We're all so deeply saddened." Cobler said Bartlett was the father of two young daughters and a nurse at East Mississippi State Hospital. White said people who didn't know Bartlett personally knew him for his ready smile and wave. "Everyone who knew him knew he would have done anything for anybody," White said. "You always saw Anthony outside, working on his lawn and playing with his daughters. Every time I saw him, he waved. Both Anthony and his wife are the kind of people you wish for as neighbors. To say he'll be missed is a terrible understatement."
