A 15-year-old boy went missing off the southern Washington coast on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release.
The boy was swimming near Long Beach, Washington just a few miles up the coast from Fort Stevens State Park, around 8 p.m. Friday. When he began to struggle, two members of his group tried to reach him unsuccessfully, the Coast Guard said.
A Pacific County Rescue swimmer saved those two people and took them to the hospital for possible hypothermia.
Coast Guard members from Oregon and Washington searched for the boy by boat and by helicopter for more than five hours and over 100 nautical miles, the news release said. They suspended the search around 12:30 Saturday morning.
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