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LY 3, 2003Zone 64After state beach drowning and 40 rescues Thursday, council keeps one of the city’s rescue boats in the budget.By SAM MILLERThe Huntington Beach WaveHuntington Beach city lifeguards made more than 40 rescues Thursday, twice as many as the day before. They took nearly 1,000 preventative measures, advising swimmers to stay in the shallow part of the break.And when Oswaldo Ramos, a skateboarding teen from Fullerton, was pulled underwater at nearby Huntington State Beach, 15 city lifeguards rushed to the scene to assist state lifeguards in a day-long search.A lifeguard rescue boat, capable of cruising at 39 knots, joined the search 13 minutes after the boy went missing.On Monday, the City Council considered a proposal to cut all three of the lifeguard’s rescue boats, along with one of the city’s 10 full-time marine safety officers.The council instead cut just two of the boats, and delayed the decision to cut the full-time lifeguard position. By a 6-1 straw vote, it pulled the marine safety officer from the list of recommended cuts to be made .July 7.On Tuesday, lifeguards on one of the boats helped rescue an unconscious19-year-old at the state beach. The man was revived by state and city lifeguards.Nearly every department faces significant cuts, as the council looks for ways to trim a budget already thin from two years of reductions.The council must cut about $11.5 million from the city’s 2003-04 budget, in part because of the struggling economy and the state’s $38 billion budget deficit. City staff are already eyeing a $6Please see BOATS / Page 6Photo by STARR BUCK / The WaveLifeguards currently have three rescue boats, but two are up for budget cuts.AW
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Huntington Beach, California, US
Thu, Jul 03, 2003
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