Capsized sailboat reported as training exercise at marina, Berkeley CA
Other Non-Crime EventFire units responded to a report of a capsized sailboat near Berkeley Marina. Upon arrival, it was found to be a planned training exercise by a nonprofit sailing club. There was no emergency.
Audio|Source: Alameda County Fire
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Transcript:
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in the area, uh, they're assist with the search.
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...497. What's the ETA in Medicaid?
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One minute.
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Copy. Ninety Seven, it's been canceled by medical once thing.
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Good to you do you a vacuena.
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Oh.
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Go 34, this is open to thank you.
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I want to see you an RP and the sailboat looks upright.
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It's pretty close to the Berkeley Arena right now.
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It's got a little small white sail on it next to a larger flat bottom vessel.
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If you want to head that direction.
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We're at the top of it.
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Again, it appears to be up right right now and the people may be back in the boat.
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By 304 copy.
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We may attach to publicity marina.
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We're going to turn around and go ahead.
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I copy. It's about 100 yards to the east of the restaurant at the end.
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Mr. 15, engine I2, truck of the seat commercial alarm, 4,5003.
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Time to from us to about 11.
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We're passing 980, 24, and if we're needed,
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which launch ramp should we hit towards.
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Just confirming, are you currently at the court here?
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That's affirmative.
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Okay.
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Gapsizing on purpose.
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And then I'll release our resources as soon as we find out.
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We'll get back to Brooklyn right now. We're going to make contact with a couple of these typeservers to see if they see anything.
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If you copy my original traffic, you're getting close to the boat right now. I'll drag in front of you. Make contact with the actual boat. It's a little white sail with the blue symbol up top.
02:38
St. 17 responding for a general fire manual pool station at the elementary school, all you inspectors.
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Presto 34 copies, we also have 10 to 15 swimmers in the water.
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that's appropriate for this area. There's a sailing fast swimming club there.
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Yeah, Oakland battalions run in this incident,
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but we're getting info that this may be part of a training exercise out towards the Berkeley Marina. Can you check with Berkeley and see if they have a training exercise of capsizing a boat and potential just a lot of rescue type training?
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We do call them earlier to see if they have anything going on in the area and they didn't have any reports.
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I'll follow up with them. I copy that.
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Injc 51 respond from medical at 3100 dollar request for sale.
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Company are they with a fire department or U.S. Coast Guard?
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We appear to be private citizens, not with the Coast Guard or the fire department.
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It's a nonprofit sailing club.
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Apparently this is a pretty common technique.
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Probably a bad idea to get a hold of that and have them make notifications prior.
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For it concurs a break.
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Rescue Boat 34. If you can make sure you give some training, coaching, and counseling there to that Boat Club, I greatly appreciate it. I'm still in the area, but I'm not sure exactly where they're at.
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Rescue Bo 34 copies, we're going to dock and make a face-up face with them. If you'd like to meet with us, if you want to go down to the Berkia Marina and head down in the end, we'll meet you down here.
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I copy that, I'm almost sorry, thanks.
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Battalion 4 office?
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Just information I'll need to follow up.
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Berkeley advised there was no notification made to them and they advised this is kind of a constant problem for them as well.
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Battalion 4 copies all traffic. I'm going to go make face-to-face with whoever's running the program.
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Thank you.
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Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, CA
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