Key Highlights
- Bodycan footage from one of the deputies showed them racing into action after responding to a call of two victims in distress, with authorities yelling to the paragliders to "Hang on!""Without hesitation and fully aware of the danger, LA County Sheriff's Department Deputies Matkin and Grigoryan removed their department-issued gear and jumped in the water," the sheriff's department said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
- The deputies swam out roughly 75 feet to a man and woman whose feet had become entangled in their heavy safety equipment that was pulling them down, which the deputies were able to cut off with their knives.
- HIRE HEROES USA HELPS VETERANS BUILD NEW CAREER PATHS AFTER SERVICE Two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies rescued two paragliders from drowning on Friday after they fell in the ocean near Malibu, Calif.
- (FOX 11) Deputy Christopher Matkin called the rescue "tense," explaining that the frantic paragliders kept pulling them under in their panic."We were able to calm them down," he added at a press conference.
- Deputy Sevak Grigoryan said that they didn’t have much time to think.
