Boat with red flashing light spotted near Yacht Club, Tacoma WA
Missing PersonA boat was spotted about one to two miles north of the yacht club with a red flashing light that is likely not a navigational light. The person on the boat has a history of calling for help but then refusing assistance and being abusive. Fire department was notified due to concern for the person's welfare.
Audio|Source: Tacoma Police Dispatch - North
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Transcript:
00:00
I don't see him anywhere on the east side of the June Peninsula spit either, so I'm not sure where he's at.
00:08
Same to the next time.
00:10
Sounds 59.
00:14
Confirming that there was a red flashing light on his boat, allegedly?
00:24
Yeah, so 30 Philbilt was something red.
00:27
I don't know if it was a red flashing light, but I do remember the one from earlier today.
00:33
Copy. It's hard for me to see, given the darkness.
00:39
But it does look like about mile, two miles out,
00:45
north of the yacht club. There is a boat with a red flashing light that is more than likely not a navigational light. And there also looks like there could be an anchor light on.
00:57
If you can notify fire.
00:59
Receive, I will, and just to note, if it is that guy, some guy called (name withheld), he was over,
01:05
like, on the peninsula earlier, calling in and doing the same kind of thing, being really abusive and then declining all help when we went out there.
01:13
Copy, yeah, I doubt fire is going to assist him too much, but, yeah,
01:22
Tacoma's not going to put out their boat unless I have another person, but we will do a call on OpenEV.
01:29
First, the vocal fire.
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Location mentioned:
Yacht Club Rd, Tacoma, WA
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