N.C. Paramedics Called to 2nd Shark Attack Minutes After 1st

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Paramedics Peter Joyce and Jack Baker had just returned from treating their first-ever shark attack victim when the radio crackled: A second person had just been attacked.

They restocked their depleted supply of tourniquets and drove through a torrential downpour. They found a teenager lying on a narrow band of sand, the high tide washing over him. Another teenager had used a belt as a tourniquet to try to stem the bleeding from his arm.

Baker and Joyce recounted Tuesday their dramatic response to the separate shark attacks within two hours at the North Carolina beach town of Oak Island.

A 12-year-old girl lost her arm below the elbow and suffered a leg injury in the first attack Sunday afternoon. A 16-year-old boy lost his arm in the second attack.

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