MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A 10-year-old girl miraculously survived a lightning strike during the weekend.

Channel 9 Eyewitness News talked with Jenna Eldridge on Monday. Her family had been trying to round up horses on their property, before severe weather arrived.

But soon, the skies opened up, and a heavy rain started to fall. Then the lightning came.

One bolt actually hit a tree, and the current traveled through a fence on the Eldridge property. Jenna happened to be standing between two gates in the fence. Her father Tim Eldridge suspected the current passed from the fence, to Jenna, and then continued into the other side of the fence.

At that moment, Jenna fell to the ground, and then quickly jumped up.

“When we got next to her, she smelled,” said Tim Eldridge. “She was smoky. She wanted water, and we gave her water.”

Soon after, Jenna started to burn up. When she lifted her shirt, there were red marks all over her body.

“It felt like I was on fire,” Jenna said. “It felt really bad.”

Her parents called 911, and a medical helicopter flew her to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Since then, doctors checked out Jenna’s burns and say she’s going to be OK. Jenna said the red marks on her body felt similar to a sunburn. She hopes to be back on her feet in the next couple of days.