Key Club employees rescue teens

Twelve-year-old Hailey Childress, of Seattle, and her 15-year-old cousin, Reid Elkins, were having fun on their boogie-boards Friday only an hour before they needed help.

The pair who was visiting their grandparents, Howard and Janice Tibbals, residents at L’Ambiance, were having fun in the water when they ended up near the Longboat Key Club and Resort. Approximately 5-foot waves were crashing over their heads, and the current prevented them from swimming back to the shore.

Two pool and beach attendants, Robert Peltier and Logan Brisson, called 911, but when they realized the teens were struggling, the Key Club employees took two kayaks out to rescue them.

Read more about this story in the April 12 issue of the Longboat Observer.

Contact Mallory Gnaegy at [email protected].