Rescue Crews Search for Possible Missing Male in Ocean

Long Beach lifeguards and other rescue crews searched the ocean in vain for a possible missing man Wednesday evening.

Scott Kemins, commissioner of the Long Beach Fire Department, said the LBFD received a call reporting a man in a white tuxedo possibly in the ocean off Maryland Avenue beach at about 9 p.m.

“There were witnesses on the beach that saw a male that might have been distraught and was talking about killing himself,” Kemins said. “They didn’t actually see him go in the water, but then they saw something that they thought was in the water.”

Kemins said the LBFD, Long Beach lifeguards, Nassau County Marine Bureau and Aviation and the U.S. Coast Guard searched the West End waters for approximately an hour, couldn’t confirm a missing person and called off the search.  

“Nobody actually saw him go in the water, and we didn’t find any clothes or belongings,” Kemins said. “...We had lifeguards up and down the shoreline and searching in the jetties and we found nothing.”

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