Crime & Safety

Good Samaritan Surfers Rescue Paddleboarder

Hampton Fire responded with an engine and a marine unit, but the Emergency Medical Services officer says surfers already did the rescue.

Nathan Denio, Hampton's emergency services officer, said two Good Samaritan surfers helped a paddleboarder in distress on Monday.

"I wasn't on the call," Denio said, so he does not know exactly how the paddleboarder got into trouble.

"There was quite a strong offshore wind yesterday," Denio said. "That may have contributed."

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Denio said the call for help came into the Hampton emergency line around 2 p.m.

"We dispatched an engine and our marine unit," he said, but the two surfers had already helped the paddleboarder to shore.

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He doesn't know the surfers' names.

Denio said the EMS checked the patient out and determined there was no need for a trip to the hospital.

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