Outrage as helicopter sent on expensive mission to find ex-fire chief’s son… who was on his couch

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…

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