Media Availability: Survivors, Coast Guard rescuers to conduct interviews with media in Wrightsville Beach, NC

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 08/30/2017 04:19 PM EDT

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Media Availability
  

August 30, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard 5th District Mid-Atlantic
Contact: 5th District Public Affairs
Office: (757) 398-6272
After Hours: (757) 434-7712

Media Availability: Survivors, Coast Guard rescuers to conduct interviews with media in Wrightsville Beach, NC

A 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew from Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, rescues five people from the water after their boat ca

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WHO: Brooke and Kenneth Freeman and Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach crew members

WHAT: The Freemans and Coast Guard crew members will discuss the July 23 rescue and pertinent boating safety tips

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 1, 3 p.m.

WHERE: Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach, 912 Water Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480

WHY: The Freemans and their Coast Guard rescuers would like to reunite, discuss their experiences and impart boating safety messages to the media and the public before Labor Day Weekend begins

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. — The media is invited to attend the reunion of two rescue survivors with their Coast Guard rescuers and interview them about the rescue at Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Friday.

Brooke and Kenneth Freeman, the two survivors, and Station Wrightsville Beach crew members will be available for interviews at 3 p.m.

Media members are invited to go on a boat ride following the interviews.

Click here for the original release about the rescue.

Media interested in attending should contact Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Thomas at 910-512-5578.

 

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