CG, F&W aid injured girls

NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard Panama City and Florida Fish and Wildlife responded to two girls struck by a boat propeller and injured near Shell Island, Fla., late afternoon May 16. Coast Guard Station Panama City launched a 29-foot Response-Boat and crew. Two crewmen went ashore and stabilized the girls to be transferred to an F&W vessel that embarked the girls, their mother, and the two boat crew members, and transported them to Panama City Marina to awaiting EMS. One girl suffered a foot laceration and the other a knee laceration. Both girls were reported to be in stable condition. (Source: Coast Guard 05/16/20)