A younger California firefighter drowned within the Pacific Ocean this week – simply 4 years after his firefighter dad died out of the blue on the job.
Oakland firefighter Caeden Laffan, 25, died round 2 a.m. Thursday off the north facet of the Pacific Pier south of La Jolla, San Diego Hearth Chief Colin Stowell instructed KTVU.
The San Diego Police Division was known as to the scene round 1:56 a.m., and the San Diego Lifeguards and US Coast Guard began looking out the world a short while later.
Laffan’s physique was recovered round 4:15 a.m., KUSI reported.
Laffan – who was in San Diego for the California Summer time Firefighter Video games – was swimming with a buddy on the time of his loss of life, the outlet stated.
He had been on the shore with family and friends member earlier than he waded into chest to waist deep water, took a number of strokes, and vanished.
There might have been alcohol concerned, officers added.
“We looked for a few hours with a rescue boat, land items, and a Coast Guard helicopter,” San Diego Hearth-Rescue Lt. Rick Romero instructed KTVU.
“We weren’t capable of find him. We have been doing our final patrol on the shoreline, and our lifeguard sergeant noticed him. He had washed onto the seashore on the north facet of the pier. Sadly, incidents occur. And it’s only a unhappy story.”
Laffan graduated from Oakland’s Recruit Academy in 2019, his house hearth station stated.
“Caeden Laffan was a younger enthusiastic member of the Oakland Hearth Division, with a vivid future forward of him, and we’re all heartbroken immediately after studying of this tragic occasion,” Oakland Hearth Chief Damon Covington stated in a press launch.
“Our hearts exit to your complete Laffan household, and all who know him, labored with him, and cherished him.”
Laffan’s dad, Sean Laffan, was additionally an Oakland firefighter.
The elder Laffan was an assistant hearth chief who died from a coronary heart assault whereas on responsibility in November 2020.
He was 42 years previous.
“I knew I wished to be an Oakland firefighter due to my dad. He impressed me the second, I received out of highschool to pursue my EMT and paramedic license,” Caeden Laffen instructed KTVU in 2020 of his plans to comply with in his father’s footsteps.
“We had about 10 years we might have labored collectively within the hearth division. It received lower brief to a yr however I cherished each second of it that’s for positive.”
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