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Man dies after being pulled unconscious from surf at Ocean Beach
A surfer died after he was rescued by lifeguards from choppy waters off San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. About 1:20 p.m., the San Francisco Fire Department was alerted to a report of a surfer in distress at Ocean Beach near Lincoln Way, according to San Francisco Fire Capt. Jonathan Baxter. At […] The post Man dies after being pulled unconscious from surf at Ocean Beach appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Man dies after being pulled unconscious from surf at Ocean Beach, A surfer died after he was rescued by lifeguards from choppy waters off San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. About 1:20 p.m., the San Francisco Fire Department was alerted to a report of a surfer in distress at Ocean Beach near Lincoln Way, according to San Francisco Fire Capt. Jonathan Baxter. At […] The post Man dies after being pulled unconscious from surf at Ocean Beach appeared first on Local News Matters .
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