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Woman caught in rip current hospitalized

Cocoa Beach lifeguards help woman swim to safety

Image from Florida Today.

COCOA BEACH, Fla. – A 47-year-old woman was hospitalized Thursday after being caught in a rip current in Cocoa Beach.

According to Local 6 News partner Florida Today, the incident happened about 11 a.m. near the East Cocoa Beach Causeway.

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"She might have suffered some exhaustion," Brevard County Fire-Rescue spokesman Lt. Jeff Taylor told the newspaper. "Fighting a rip current is a fairly tiring process."

Lifeguards noticed the woman was in danger and helped her swim out of the rip current.

The National Weather Service told the newspaper a cool front moving into the area Friday will make the surf rough again.


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