For the third time in seven months, Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies and members of the Palm Coast Fire Department and Flagler County Fire Rescue late Tuesday night talked a 17-year-old girl down from the I-95 overpass at Palm Coast Parkway.
The girl, a B-Section resident who lives with her father, had walked on the overpass’s ledge on the side of a metal barrier facing traffic, as she had the two times before, in June and July.
“It’s OK, we’re going to help you down, but you’re going to keep holding on, ok?” one of the first deputies at the scene told her as she kept inching her way toward the center of the span.
“Leave me alone,” she told the two cops, one of whom told her a female cop was on her way: from previous experience, the deputies knew the girl did not like to deal with male authorities.