Netarts Oceanside Rural Fire Protection District responded to a notification yesterday that a man was pulled out into a current at Cape Lookout Beach & State Park.
“He had been out waist-deep in the surf with his wife and son when he got caught in the current,” said Fire Chief Tim Carpenter.
His wife took their son and ran to the beach. She went back in to try to save him but wasn’t able to, as the current was too fast. She ran back to the beach where she yelled for help.
According to Carpenter, a Portland resident, Holland Molder, swam out with her surfboard, along with three boys with boogey boards. Molder says that she was on the beach with a group of friends when someone asked to borrow one of their boogey boards. Carpenter believes the boys were from a swim team in Florida. Molder saw the man and believed he had been floating for a while.