It should have killed him. 7,200 volts of electricity zapped an Auburn teenager. Now Steven Johnson is telling his remarkable tale of survival.

"It came over here, came down," the 13 year old said while he motions across his hips and down his legs, showing how 7,200 volts raced through his body.

He shows us the holes in the hip of his baseball pants where the electricity entered his body. He shows us the burnt holes in his socks and the toes of his shoes where 7,200 volts shot out.

Then there are the holes in his toes. "That's the worst one," says Steven's father Jeff Johnson, pointing to his son's right Big toe.

Saturday morning, Steven Johnson was with his father Jeff, at his grandparents. A tree had knocked out power, and though crews had restored the electricity, there was still a line dangling from the pole in front.

Steven inadvertently backed into it. "It picked me up and I looked down and I saw a blue outline around my feet," he said.

Then he fell to the ground. "Scared me, scared my whole family."

"I could tell he was very, very out of it," says Jeff Johnson. "He was looking at you, but he wasn't looking at you." Then a Puget Sound Energy worker told him, "7,200 volts," and he said, "that's instant death."

Jeff Johnson just assumed that line was dead because it was on the ground and power crews had already been through the area. But he learned a valuable lesson, any downed line should always be treated as if it's live.

Jeff rushed his son to the hospital, where they confirmed his miraculous escape. Aside from burn holes in his hip and feet, he's fine. "God spared me." And Steven laughs when he tells us his new nickname: "Sparky"

Puget Sound Energy reminds everyone: if you see a downed power line call them or call 911 - but don't go near it.