Lifeguard Weekly News – Rescue Swimmers

Lifeguard Weekly News – Rescue Swimmers

With the remake of Baywatch featuring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) and Zack Effron, the picture of a good looking man with a ripped body continues to be the stereotype for a lifeguard’s physique. Now while lifeguards exercise quite a lot, good looks aren’t exactly criteria for being a lifeguard – the willingness to selflessly put your life at risk for a total stranger as a Rescue Swimmer, is.

Here on Lifeguard Times™, we are dedicated to putting a spotlight on Lifeguards and their acts of heroism that happen each week and this week’s news features:

• A First Day Of The Job Rescue By A Teen Lifeguard In Ohio
• Once A Lifeguard, Always A Lifeguard
• Lifeguards At North Aquatic Center Rescue Two Swimmers Within The Hour

Teen Lifeguard Saves Toddler On His First Day

15-year-old lifeguard Jack Viglianco reacted first to a drowning 4-year-olds cry for help at a pool in Lakewood, Ohio on Thursday. Viglianco had only spent 20 minutes as a lifeguard when the situation called for his lifeguarding skills and thankfully, he had learned well. Viglianco who had received a 5-hour orientation earlier that day said rescuing a toddler on his first day was an act he would never forget. Further adding that he suddenly that he had just saved a kids life and not many people can say they’d done the same – his peers inclusive.

Jack Viglianco’s rescue brings the total tally of rescues between two of Lakewood’s public pools to 43 successful lifesaving efforts in the last two summers.

Lifeguard Turned NYPD Officer Saves Distressed Woman In Waters Off Rockaway Beach

Once you make it through lifeguard training, there is no going back… there is no such thing as an ex-lifeguard. Regardless of when or where an emergency occurs, anyone who seats or has sat in the lifeguarding chair would spring into action immediately. Such was the case for 23-year-old officer William Lauria, who needed her lifeguarding experience on Monday night to save a distressed woman in the waters off Rockaway Beach in Queens.

The victim, a 25-year-old Staten Island woman had been swimming some 50 feet from shore at about 7:40 p.m. when she found herself in distress. NYPD Officer Anna Loboda had spotted the drowning woman and called for help over her police radio, thus prompting Lauria to the scene. Prior to Lauria’s arrival at the scene, a man had attempted to rescue the victim and found himself in water troubles as well.

Lauria not only managed to rescue the distressed woman but also directed a surfer to rescue the man who had jumped in to rescue the woman.

The victim was taken to a hospital where she has been diagnosed as stable.

Lifeguards At North Aquatic Center Rescue Two Swimmers Within The Hour

Often times, the position of a lifeguard is undermined… even as self-explanatory as the title itself is. Most beachgoers and swimmers refer to lifeguards as the “fun police”, seeing as lifeguards tend to restrict their swimming to certain areas. But two fortunate swimmers at the North Aquatic Center would disagree, thanks to lifeguards at North Aquatic Center.

North Aquatic Center Lifeguard Kylie Cox said an 11-year- old girl got into an awkward situation as she walked out onto the high dive. The girl had grabbed a railing beside her before she fell in the railing’s direction, caught the lower part of it and was left hanging in the air.

Kylie and another lifeguard Ben Hulsing rushed up the ladder behind the high dive then grabbed the girl’s arms to stop her from falling. Other lifeguards rushed to the girl’s aid by grabbing her legs and helping her back to the ground.

Shortly after the incident, North Aquatic Center lifeguards were called to action again – this time to aid a man suffering heat exhaustion.

Following these rescues, onlookers headed over to social media platforms to share their gratitude to the lifeguards.

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