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‘Mini-ambulance’ to aid lifeguards’ rescue efforts in Fla.

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By JULIE WARESH
Palm Beach Post (Florida)

John Bebensee will never forget the hefty guy who cracked his skull jumping from a sea wall into the ocean.

Not because his injury was so severe, but because Bebensee, Boynton Beach’s ocean rescue chief, and others had to carry the man a quarter of a mile across the sand.

“That was miserable,” said Bebensee, who manages a staff of 14 rescue lifeguards who patrol the 12-acre Oceanfront Park and its wide expanse of beach.

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