Emergency personnel enter Ocean City, New Jersey, jumped into action to rescue two people stranded on a disabled sailboat that eventually ran aground on a sandbank near the beach Saturday afternoon.
The Ocean City Firefighters Association said that around 2 p.m. Saturday, emergency crews, Ocean City police and beach patrol members responded to the area near 22nd Street and the beach for a water rescue.
When they arrived, emergency personnel saw that a nearly 40-foot sailboat was disabled and in distress with two people on board.
The sailboat was rapidly approaching a sandbar which rough surf threw around the vessel.
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Crews in Ocean City, New Jersey responded to a vessel in distress and rescued two people when the nearly 40-foot sailboat ran aground on a sandbank. (Ocean City Firefighters Association Facebook post)
The firefighters carried out a water rescue and first contacted the two people on the sailboat.
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Then, when the boat ran aground on the sandbar, firefighters rescued the two people on board.
One of the people was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
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On Facebook, the association credited “a quick response and team effort” for leading to a positive outcome for all individuals involved in the incident.