While already being strapped for cash, the city of San Diego’s emergency response department spent tens of thousands of dollars searching for the son of a retired fire chief outside their county who was actually just at home resting.
On June 29, the San Diego’s Fire Rescue Department [SDFRD] deployed its Sikorsky S-70i Firehawk from Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in a missing-persons search for Wesley Alan MacFarland, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
However, the search for MacFarland, who is the 47-year-old son of longtime San Diego Fire-Rescue chief of air operations Charles MacFarland, was called off after he happened to be ‘chilling at his apartment,’ according to a local surfer, Sage Burke…