Rescue station honors Carnegie Medal awardee

rescue station
The City of Cocoa Beach unveiled its first of 35 LIFETM Rescue Stations in a project to make Cocoa Beach the safest beach possible.
Fred Hunt, Jr.

One of the sites of a newly designed beach rescue station in Cocoa Beach, Fla., is being dedicated to the memory of Fred Hunt, Jr., who died Oct. 22, 2007, while helping to save a woman from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean. Hunt, 51, was from Berwick, Maine, and for his actions he was posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008. In January 2017, the City of Cocoa Beach unveiled its first of 35 LIFETM Rescue Stations in a project that was conceived in 2015 in part by Wyatt Werneth, former Brevard County (Fla.) Ocean Rescue Chief. The goal: Making Cocoa Beach the safest beach possible. Werneth quote: “Always swim near a lifeguard or a LIFETM Rescue Station.”


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