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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2005 - Baywatch Avalon
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Catalina Island Baywatch Report - March 21-27, 2005

Tuesday, March 22
0850 Hrs:
(Avalon) Baywatch Avalon and Rescue 6 responded to a truck vs. golf cart collision. The golf cart patient was treated and transported to Catalina Island Medical Center (CIMC).
1300 Hrs: (Avalon) Baywatch Avalon, Avalon Fire Department Rescue 6 and County Fire responded to an 86-year-old female who suffered a laceration from a fall. The patient was treated at the scene and transported to CIMC for further treatment.

Wednesday, March 23
1802 Hrs:
(Avalon) Rescue 6 and Baywatch Avalon were called to assist Harbor Patrol and Sheriff's deputies with a person who threatened to harm herself. The patient, a 27-year-old female, was under a doctor's care for depression and bi-polar disorder and taking a number of mediations to deal with her condition. She was assessed and found to have no urgent medical condition. She assured rescuers that her statements of intent to harm her were empty threats directed at her family to alarm them and she had no real aim to hurt herself. She was turned over the Sheriff's deputies who then released her at the scene.

Thursday, March 24
2209 Hrs:
(Avalon) Avalon Baywatch and Harbor Patrol were contacted by the United States Coast Guard who received a report of two flare sightings from a boat in the area of the Quarry. Both agencies made searches of the shoreline and hillside between Pebbly Beach and the East End. Sheriff's deputies also searched the area from on shore. After an hour's search, no additional sightings or contacts were made by radio or radar and the United States Coast Guard suspended the search.

Saturday, March 26
0839 Hrs
: (Avalon) Rescue 6 and Avalon Baywatch were called to a home for a report of a person injured in a fall. The patient, an 81-year-old woman sustained injuries to her head and elbow when she tripped and fell in her
bathroom. She was assessed, stabilized, splinted and transported to CIMC for further care. 1530 Hrs: Two girls were rescued from the water by the beach lifeguard at Middle Beach. The rescued girls, ages eight and ten were at the beach unattended by an adult. As they were playing in the water on a boogie board, they got out into water over their heads and fell off the boogie board. Neither of the girls could swim; each girl was pulling the other down in an attempt to stay on the surface. After being pulled from the water, the 10-year-old complained of head pain and was hyperventilating. She was given oxygen and assessed for signs of secondary drowning. Once she calmed down, her condition stabilized and she was released to her father. An excellent job by the beach lifeguard, preventing what could have easily become a tragic situation.

Sunday, March 27
1652 Hrs:
(Isthmus) Baywatch Isthmus Lifeguard Paramedics were summoned to the Isthmus pier for a 13-year-old boy who sustained a significant full thickness forehead laceration from a falling rock. Apparently the dislodged rock was sent down the cliff area between the campground and town while friends were climbing the loose shoreline cliffs. The injury was dressed and bandaged and due to the mechanism and severity of the injury, spinal immobilization precautions were taken. Accompanied by a parent, he was transported by the Baywatch rescue boat the CIMC for follow-up care.

 

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