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Call transfers, confusion, miscommunication and even boat motor problems characterized the response to 911 calls for help the afternoon that 16-year-old Fitz Thomas drowned near Confluence Park—all described in a 77-page report released Monday.
The name of the report, the Perdido Bay Terrace Significant Incident Review, is emblematic of one the biggest problems that delayed the response—Perdido Bay Terrace is simply the nearest road to the site of the drowning, which happened at the mouth of the Goose Creek at Confluence Park in the River Creek neighborhood…
