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Fla. lifeguard fired for rescue outside beach zone
Two other lifeguards have quit in protest
Updated: Thursday, 05 Jul 2012, 12:12 PM MDT
Published : Thursday, 05 Jul 2012, 6:29 AM MDT
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lifeguard Tomas Lopez helped save a drowning man and got fired for it.
The reason: He left the section of a south Florida beach his company is paid to patrol. The Orlando-based company, Jeff Ellis and Associates, says Lopez broke a company rule and could have put beachgoers in his section in jeopardy.
The Sun Sentinel reported Lopez was on duty Monday at Hallandale Beach when a beachgoer asked for help. Lopez said he ran to assist a man struggling in the water south of his post.
By the time Lopez arrived, witnesses had pulled the drowning man out of the water. Lopez and an off-duty nurse helped him until paramedics arrived. The victim survived and was hospitalized.
Afterward, Lopez was fired.
Two other lifeguards have quit in protest.
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