RIP CURRENTS CALLS WERE RAMPANT!…
Alert the media…
We hear the VFD…AMR …BSO were mighty busy today…
5 near drownings off our beach…with the VFD using their Sea Doos and the newly installed life rings…
Seems someone wanted that news to be known…and alerted the media…
This writer first heard the news of 2 near drowning calls…including 1 call coming from the Windjammer around 1 pm….
On channel 6 news at 6 pm…. the report was 5 near drownings in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea….No interviews…
The BCbythesea- hubby and I ate dinner at Village Grille (Sunday Blue Plate Special pot roast)…as we watched a channel 6 camera van turn around in front of the beach pavilion….After as we made our way home…we saw two channel 10 camera vans…coming down Commercial Blvd…and turning onto Bougainvilla…and stopping in front of the LBTS fire station…around 8 pm….They parked in front of the firehouse…the empty …closed down firehouse…with no firemen to be found!…
We inquired if they were there for the near drownings…they said “yes”…One cameraman said “Someone called the news desk…and told them of the VFD saving 2 people using their jet ski and new life rings.”…He went on to say “Guess they wanted to get the word out on what they did.”…We answered ‘Guess so!”…BUT…Where were they ( VFD)?…
We were told by the cameraman…when we asked if it would be on the 11 pm news…”Unless the earth opens up!”…
As we spoke to him a reporter was across the street interviewing and videoing two young surfers in front of their car…and then they proceeded to go back across the road to take video of the 3rd and 4th firetrucks…parked along side the closed up station as the darkness of the hour came upon them…..
Let’s hope that either they have earlier video to use of the VFD and other LBTS safety providers…or somehow…some way…the VFD came to the station after we left…
Make sure to see…on channel 6 and channel 10 at 11 pm tonight!…
more to come…
Tags: amr, BSO, News, Public Safety, Scoops, VFD
