“I saw a large crowd in the pool, in the area on the side of the pool, and on top of the pool,” the Columbia, S.C. fire chief said.
South Carolina fire officials broke up a large pool party Saturday after they say hundreds of people crowded together without masks.
”It was a perfect storm if anyone had the virus to be passed to one another,” Columbia Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said, according to WIS. “I saw a large crowd in the pool, in the area on the side of the pool, and on top of the pool,” he said. He continued:"Columbia City Council and Columbia City Manager Teresa Wilson have reached out to apartment owners throughout the City, including apartments with high concentrations of college students and young people, where there are continued confirmed accounts of large gatherings at pools, and requested these complexes close their pools. The City of Columbia closed all of its public pools months ago in response to the initial outbreaks of the virus.
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