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Ocean Safety lifeguards made 95 rescues and took 4,576 preventive actions Monday, mostly on the south and east shores. Surf was up to 12 feet on east shores due to Tropical Storm Jimena. A south swell brought 5- to 8-foot surf, with higher sets.
>> At China Walls a mobile lifeguard, making a final check at about 6 p.m. Monday, found a man in his 50s, his son and two other teenage boys in the water and unable to get back onshore. He jumped in with a rescue tube and fins, and with another lifeguard from Sandy Beach brought them out of the surf line and waited for help from the Fire Department, said Ron Bregman, acting Ocean Safety Division administrator.
>> A man about 50 was found floating unconscious in the ocean off Ala Moana Beach on Monday afternoon, Emergency Medical Services reported. The man was found at about 1:25 p.m. in the area of the canoe hale at Ala Moana Beach Park.
EMS paramedics treated the man and transported him in critical condition to an area hospital.
Man, 35, charged in burglary attempt
Prosecutors charged a 35-year-old Salt Lake man Monday who allegedly poured what appeared to be gasoline into a Waikiki home and “threatened to burn the place down,” police said.
Tarik McMillan was charged with first-degree burglary and promoting a detrimental drug. His bail was set at $30,000.
Police said McMillan followed a 36-year-old man home Sunday and allegedly pushed a gasoline container into the window, then poured the liquid inside and made the threat to burn the home.
Police patrol officers found the suspect nearby on Kalakaua Avenue and arrested him on suspicion of first-degree burglary, a Class B felony. Police later found illegal drugs on him.
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