PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Amina Noah, Member of the Public
1:28:24
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128 sec
Amina Noah, a mother who lost her only son in a drowning incident, shares her personal grief and calls for improved water safety measures. She emphasizes the need for more lifeguards, better training, and education about beach safety for young people.
- Highlights the emotional impact of losing a child and the importance of preventing similar tragedies for other families
- Suggests increasing the number of lifeguards and improving their training
- Calls for better education on beach safety, especially for teenagers who frequent beaches in large numbers
Amina Noah
1:28:24
Good morning, everybody.
1:28:27
So I'm just basically here just to it's been a lot going on with all the situation, especially with the drama of my son.
1:28:37
And I couldn't my the the things that I have been dealing with at home by myself and with the help of friends and families surrounding me.
1:28:50
That's really what's helping me at this moment.
1:28:55
That's my only son.
1:28:57
That's my only child.
1:28:58
So that's someone who has been a part of me, I'd say, without him going to basketball practice or sports dealing with sports all the time.
1:29:09
He's always around me.
1:29:10
We always do things together with a go out to eat, go to food events, and different places.
1:29:17
Now I don't have that no more.
1:29:19
I just wanna say how do we fix this issue?
1:29:25
Because I don't want to make another family feel what I'm going through on a daily basis.
1:29:33
It's not a great feeling.
1:29:36
And how do we fix this?
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What questions we need to take?
1:29:42
Because we need to have more lifeguards, more trained, and proper education, 2, even for our kids because a lot of teens go to the beach all the time in the summer, thousands and thousands of people go to the beach.
1:29:58
I don't think most of us know what's the difference of, what is the flag stand for, or red flag stand for, especially with the young kids out here.
1:30:07
They just wanna go to the beach and have fun with their friends and hang up.
1:30:12
Fortunately, mines didn't come home this summer.
1:30:18
It's a lot.
1:30:20
But I just want no family to be gone to what I'm feeling right now.
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That's all.
1:30:30
I don't know what this is.
1:30:32
I'm sorry.
