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Destin beach safety, fire district report: 3,300 rescues in 20 years; new equipment and regional capabilities coming
Summary
Beach Safety and Destin Fire Control District leaders reported long‑term rescue totals, described current programs (lifeguards, junior lifeguard, beach wheelchairs), and said the department is acquiring a new response boat with high pump capacity, expanding training and CBRN capability, and planning staffing increases.
Joe (Beach Safety division chief, Destin Fire Control District) told the City of Destin City Council that the lifeguard and beach safety program has grown into a multi‑agency effort that now covers seven contiguous miles of guarded beach and associated harbor areas. “We rescued 3,322 people in the last 20 years,” Joe said, noting that statistic as a measure of the service’s public‑safety record.
Joe described programs and partnerships now in place: lifeguard coverage across beaches and the harbor, a beach wheelchair program at…
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