On their way to work, Midway Fire Rescue crews are encouraged to think like a tourist.
“You’re going to look at your currents, your tides. You’re going to come over and look at the beach,” said Master Firefighter Paramedic Clint Corpening. “I encourage all my guys: go to the beach in the morning.”
Midway crews completed a month of training in water rescue with boat drills this week off the inlet between Pawleys Island and Litchfield Beach that gives the department its name. It’s an area where two drownings within a month last summer prompted the town of Pawleys Island to post warnings about rip currents and place rescue buoys on the beach…