On the afternoon of April 6th, a surfer spotted an 18-year-old woman face down in the water just outside the park boundary at Fort Pickens and pulled her to shore. April Wood, a vacationing protection ranger from Buffalo NR, happened to be passing by at the time. She stopped, checked the woman, found that she had no pulse, and immediately began CPR on her. Within two minutes, her heartbeat was restored and she began breathing on her own. Local emergency personnel arrived soon after and took the woman – identified as Kristina Cramer of Pensacola – to Gulf Breeze Hospital, where she’s been undergoing treatment. The Pensacola Beach Public Safety Department and the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, both park cooperators, credit Wood with saving Cramer’s life. Yellow cautionary surf condition flags were posted at the time of the incident.
