Within a minute after takeoff from Miller Air Park in Berkeley
Township, pilot Bill Denlinger made a pass over the Sarco sand pits deep
in the pines of Manchester.
It was the first of 14 checkpoints Denlinger would fly over between
Manasquan Inlet and the tip of Mystic Islands in Little Egg Harbor
during his volunteer aerial sunset patrol of Ocean County.
On this night, a couple of people could be seen illegally operating
ATVs in the sand pits, but that would be the only suspicious activity
detected during the 90-minute patrol.
A week earlier, however, a patrol flight spotted a sizable fuel leak
in a lagoon in Little Egg Harbor that was reported to the state
Department of Environmental Protection, and other recent patrols have
yielded finds ranging from a woman stuck on an uninhabited island with a
disabled jet-ski to the location of a boat that had caught fire in
Barnegat Bay. All were reported to authorities, who led rescue missions.
Read more here: http://holmdel-hazlet.patch.com
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