Edhat StaffBy the edhat staff
A Santa Barbara County firefighter found a missing 88-year-old woman in Gaviota on Sunday morning.
At 7:46 a.m., a County Batallian Chief was driving on Highway 101 southbound through Gaviota when they observed a swerving SUV with front-end damage.
Using their red lights, the firefighter pulled the swerving vehicle over and discovered the driver is a 88-year-old woman from Santa Paula who was reported missing on Saturday evening.
The woman was transferred to the California Highway Patrol for family unification.
The comments on this show how deranged and twisted the SB Edhat commentators truly are. Chief Stevens did an outstanding job addressing a reckless driver and as a cherry on top, SHE found the missing person.
Sounds as though it was one person, yet the story reads, “ Using their red lights, the firefighters pulled the swerving vehicle over ,,,” it sounds as though several people were driving the vehicle! I understand about political correctness and not wanting to reveal the gender of the battalion chief but there needs to be clarity and accuracy in reporting. When there is only one, there’s available the neutral 3rd person singular instead of the 3rd person plural.
“they” is the neutral 3rd person singular in English. It’s been used that way for centuries.
MM – it states (some-where’s else) : “At about 7:45 a.m., Battalion Chief Nikki Stevens, who was going off duty, saw the woman’s vehicle, with front-end damage, swerving on the highway, said fire Capt. Scott Safechuck. Stevens began to follow the woman, he said, and the California Highway Patrol was alerted.”…. so they used “he”?
BICYCLIST, read what you wrote again. The ‘he’ is not the person who did the pulling over, it’s the person who talked to the media.
The BC is a she.
The BC represents Santa Barbara County Firefighters, and the reporter may not have known how many were in the vehicle. Why bend over so far that your head ends up in your rectum in order to demand that no one use language that you deem “politically correct”? The excess is all on the right wing.
“Seems like an extended use of SB County property and flagrant misuse of our tax dollars.”
Seem like you are talking about things you know nothing about.