Calls for help from a man trapped at Buccaneer Beach were answered over the weekend by a good Samaritan and rescuers from the Oceanside Fire Department, reports NBC 7 s Joe Little.
Making a difficult rescue much more dire for the firefighters was the fact that they were in a race against the incoming tide. As the first-responders worked to free the man from the rocks, waves began to crash on the beach around the victim and his rescuers, with the trapped man eventually becoming fully submerged. We were constantly up to water right here, Oceanside firefighter/paramedic David Pepsny recalled to NBC 7 on Tuesday at the scene, gesturing halfway up his face, with the side of his head parallel with the ground. . and so he would just completely disappear underwater and then just come back and f -ing pleading, you know?