Event narrative (NOAA)
The Panama City Beach Police Department reports three separate fatal water incidents behind three different resorts on Front Beach Road. Officers arrived on scene at the first incident at 12:04 p.m. to find PCB Beach Safety lifeguards actively rescuing a female from the Gulf of Mexico behind Days Inn located at 12818 Front Beach Road. She was successfully brought to shore but was unresponsive and life-saving measures were started. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The victim was a 39 year old female from Lithonia, Georgia. ||Officers arrived on scene at a second incident to find PCB Beach Safety lifeguards actively rescuing a male from the Gulf of Mexico behind Boardwalk Beach Resort located at 9450 South Thomas Drive at 1:13 p.m. He was successf
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.