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An off-duty doctor stopped to help and Arran was airlifted the to hospital in Newcastle.

The off-duty firefighter was part of a group of four men in their 20s who had set out that evening to free dive, which involves swimming underwater without breathing apparatus or scuba tanks.

National Park Service staffing cuts prompted off-duty rangers and residents to protest at national parks nationwide, including Joshua Tree and the Santa Monica Mountains.

Monday and “off-duty, uniformed officers working security for the business heard the gunshots and called for assistance.”

The Southern California protests were among those staged at roughly 140 national park sites around the country Saturday by Resistance Rangers, a group of about 700 off-duty park rangers with a stated mission to save public lands and protect civil servants.