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One dead in drowning, several others sent to hospital

PANAMA CITY BEACH — At least one fatal drowning occurred on Panama City Beach over the weekend and law enforcement stayed busy Sunday afternoon with several other water distress calls.

Charles Glenn Adamson of Panama City Beach was unresponsive after being pulled onto the shore near the Carousel Supermarket about 7 p.m. Saturday, according to Ruth Corley, spokeswoman for the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.

A male, 17, and a female, 22, from Tennessee were pulled from the water near Edgewater Beach Resort at about 5 p.m. Sunday.

Around the same time a woman in her 70s also was pulled from the Gulf near Continental Condominiums. All three were taken to a local hospital and while their condition was unclear Sunday night, officials said none of them appeared to have life-threatening injuries.

Corley also said BCSO worked a distress call at Richard Seltzer Park in which the swimmer was released after treatment. 

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.”


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