Fire Captain Shenbaum, Officers McCurdy, Carrasquillo awarded Medals of Valor
Manhattan Beach Fire Chief Ken Shuck congratulates Fire Captain Dave Shenbaum on his Medal of Valor award. Photos Manhattan Beach Fire Captain Dave Shenbaum and Inglewood Police officers Shea McCurdy and Detective David Carrasquillo were awarded Medals of Valor Award Wednesday during the annual awards luncheon sponsored by the South Bay Chambers of Commerce at the Torrance Marriott. (See the Medal of Valor Luncheon Photos) Shenbaum was honored for leaping off the Manhattan Beach pier in his boxer shorts into 58 degree water on the evening of January 31 of last year to rescue an Inglewood police officer. The Inglewood officer was thought to have jumped from the pier and was calling for help while holding on to a pier piling. Shenbaum, who is also a part-time lifeguard, jumped into the water, while MBPD officers stood on the pier handing down flotation devices. “I grabbed him, got him on a flotation device and then took a bunch of sets [waves],” Shenbaum said in an Easy Reader interview shortly after the incident. “There was a ripping lateral current. I was concerned we were going to ping-pong ball through the pier pilings.” Lifeguards soon joined them under the pier and helped…
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