5 rescued from jetties at high tide

GALVESTON — Five people were rescued from rocks off the south jetty in the early hours of Monday after they became stranded during an all-night fishing trip.

The five — three adults and two minors — had walked out to the rocks about 250 yards from the shore just after midnight, when the water was low.

They became trapped about 4:30 a.m. when the tide, running high at full moon, rose rapidly and began racing between their outcrop and the jetty.

Galveston lifeguard Diane Lewis, former lifeguard and Galveston Police Department officer Sean Migues and lifeguard Capt. Tony Pryor brought them ashore with the aid of a group of Galveston firefighters.

The party consisted of Mark Barboza Sr. and Mark Barboza Jr., of Houston; Jessica Richards, of Jersey Village, and two teens from Houston.

An EMS crew determined that only one had suffered minor leg abrasions and released all five without taking them to the hospital.