Rough seas and dangerous rip currents led to a high volume of beach rescues on Friday, with 29 people pulled from the water in Fort Lauderdale and another nine in Pompano Beach.
Seven of the rescues occurred at one location, including a father and his 6- or 7-year-old son. Everyone involved was safely brought out of the water, though four of the seven victims were taken to the hospital.
Peter Barnum, one of the people on shore who raced to the rescue, described the exhaustion of one of the victims, the father…