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Cops, Firefighters Watch on Shore and Do Nothing as Suicide Victim Drowns

06/04/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

New Motto: ‘To Serve and Protect.  If We Can Afford It.’

By Douglas Stanglin – “Fire and police teams say city policy and budget cuts are to blame for emergency teams watching from shore while a 52-year-old man apparently took his own life in the Bay Area surf near San Francisco on Memorial Day.

The San Jose Mercury News says Alameda police and firefighters responded quickly to a 911 call about an attempted suicide off Crown Beach, but firefighters could not enter the water because they are not trained in land/water rescue. Police stayed back because, they said, the victim, Raymond Zack, was suicidal and possibly violent.

Zack stood in the neck-deep water for nearly an hour — sometimes raising his arms above the surface — before he eventually floated away about 150 yards from shore, the newspaper reports.” Read more.

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