Carnegie Medals went to Kevin Barrett and Cameron Whiting for the ocean rescue, and San Diego native Richard Fierro for disarming a Colorado nightclub shooter.
A 46-year-old swimmer was attacked by a shark and suffered “significant” injuries prompting officials to close a 2-mile stretch of beach to swimmers and surfers as a precaution on Sunday, June 2, 2024 in Del Mar, CA. Kevin Barrett and Cameron Whiting were finishing up a long ocean swim when they heard screams over the Del Mar beach waves.
Also among the 18 recipients for the third quarter of the year was Richard Fierro, a San Diego native who helped take down a gunman at a Colorado Springs nightclub. The shark attack happened June 2. Whiting, Barrett and the swimmer they rescued, 46-year-old Caleb Adams, were among more than a dozen members of the North County Ocean Swimmers team swimming along the Del Mar coast that morning.with the Union-Tribune he and Whiting had just finished their swim when they heard their teammate screaming around 9 a.m.
Whiting and a surfer eventually caught up with them. The surfer offered up his board in the rescue attempt. Once the two could stand, they each took an arm and got the victim up the beach to a lifeguard truck. They triaged wounds until Adams could be taken to a hospital, where he would eventually recover from his injuries.
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