Surf City ocean rescue is seeing an increase in calls rip current rescues with more than a dozen calls just this week.
Surf City ocean rescue has responded to more than a dozen rip current rescues in the last three days after seeing an increase in calls over the last two weeks.
About twenty minutes after doing an interview with WWAY’s Hannah Patrick Friday at 9 a.m. about the increase in calls, Surf City Fire Chief Allen Wilson had to respond to another two calls to rescue three people from rip currents in the 400 block of North Shore Drive.
Wilson believes the two tropical storms that recently passed off the Carolina coast created more rip currents in the area. “We’ve developed a nice little sand bar off the coast, about 100 yards off shore, but unfortunately that’s kind of where those rips start,” Wilson said.