SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rescue crews in San Francisco are still searching for a 14-year-old boy in the waters off the city’s Ocean Beach after his father and cousin were saved.
Authorities received reports of at least three swimmers in distress shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The father was taken to University of California San Francisco hospital with life-threatening injuries, where his condition was not immediately known.
Tony Barbero, a 17-year-old surfer, was at the scene and told KPIX-TV that he saw two people struggling in the water and that he was able to pull both of them to the beach.
A teenage boy was the first person he saw struggling, Barbero said.
“I couldn’t see what was happening at first, but later I figured he was starting to drown. So I took him on my board and paddled him in,” he told the station.
Afterward, he noticed a man who appeared to be in his 30s also struggling in the water. “I didn’t think that he was struggling until I had the other guy onto the shore,” Barbero said.
Once onshore, rescuers were able to provide medical attention to the man, whose pulsed had stopped, San Francisco Battalion Chief Marty Ross said.
KNTV-TV reports that the boy Barbero pulled from the water is the older man’s nephew. The boy who is still missing is the man’s son.
Ocean Beach, on the western shore of San Francisco, is known for being one of the nation’s most dangerous.
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