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3 drown off Panhandle beaches over weekend
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Published: April 13, 2009
Updated: 04/13/2009 05:48 pm
DESTIN - Authorities say two swimmers and a kayaker drowned off Panhandle beaches over the Easter weekend.
The Destin Fire Control District says 39-year-old Joseph Jones from Riverdale, Ga., died Friday after going into the water off Destin to help others caught in a rip current. The others survived.
An unidentified airman stationed at Eglin Air Force Base drowned later Friday after being caught in a rip current also off Destin while tossing a football back and forth in waist-deep water with his brother-in-law.
Authorities say red flags warning beach goers to stay out of the water because of the rip currents flew throughout the weekend.
Fourteen-year-old Trevor Mills of Panama City Beach died Sunday night following a kayaking accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
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