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Off-duty Calif. firefighter rescues stranded kayaker

The man had been yelling for help for 30 minutes; another half-hour in the 60-degree water and he might have died

OC Register

DANA POINT, Calif. — Very faintly, Scott Schultz heard a voice through the darkness: “Help!”

He couldn’t see anything, so he asked his friend and boss, Mark Flores, if he’d heard it.

“Ah, you must be hearing things,” Schultz recalled Flores saying as the off-duty firefighters sat off Dana Point hoop-netting for lobster on Schultz’s boat. Schultz, a 12-year veteran of the Orange County Fire Authority, always gets low marks for hearing in his regular checkups.

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