Charles Glenn Adamson of
A male, 17, and a female, 22, from
Around the same time a woman in her 70s also was pulled from the
Corley also said BCSO worked a distress call at
Just before 6 p.m. Sunday night, before law enforcement changed flags along the beach to double red, a barrage of water distress calls came in requesting first responders, officials said.
Some of the calls required first responders to rescue three or four swimmers at one time.
“There’s always going to be a problem when you have a lot of people getting the water,” said Chief Drew Whitman of the Panama City Beach Police Department. “But that is why we have the flag system and when we get a strong rip current we go to double red flags.”
Whitman said a storm coming in out of the west caused the problem.
“All of the sudden we got a big rise in water and the rip current changes,” Whitman said. “It starts pushing in the water and it causes a strong rip current.”