{"id":861,"date":"2014-09-13T05:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=861"},"modified":"2014-09-13T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T13:14:51","slug":"brick-lifeguards-saved-19-lives-this-season-stats-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-lifeguards-saved-19-lives-this-season-stats-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Lifeguards Saved At Least 19 Lives This Season, Stats Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_549\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"A lifeguard stand at Brick Beach III. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lifeguard stand at Brick Beach III. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township&#8217;s lifeguards have called it a season, but not before rescuing 19 people from the ocean and assisting in more than 100 calls for medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lifeguards handled every one of those incidents with success,&#8221; said Mayor John Ducey.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the township keeps track of how many times lifeguards have to perform a rescue or assist with another issue on the beach. The lifeguards protect swimmers at the township&#8217;s public beaches as well as the beaches of a number of private associations which reimburse the township for its services.<\/p>\n<p>Beach attendance was up this year, Business Administrator Joanne Bergin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/bricks-beach-badge-sales-make-slow-recovery-after-sandy\/\">told Shorebeat last week<\/a>, with 5,624 season badges and 20,032 daily badges sold. (More information to compare beach badge sales numbers to previous years is available by clicking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/bricks-beach-badge-sales-make-slow-recovery-after-sandy\/\">link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>For the 2014 beach season, Brick&#8217;s lifeguards and first responders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performed 19 water rescues.<\/li>\n<li>Assisted 14 swimmers.<\/li>\n<li>Responded to 167 medical calls at the beach.<\/li>\n<li>Helped administer oxygen to three people.<\/li>\n<li>Helped find 10 lost people.<\/li>\n<li>Handled one incident of disorderly conduct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/brick-lifeguards-saved-19-lives-this-season-stats-show\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township&#8217;s lifeguards have called it a season, but not before rescuing 19 people from the ocean and assisting in more than 100 calls for medical assistance. &#8220;The lifeguards handled every one of those incidents with success,&#8221; said Mayor John Ducey. Each year, the township keeps track of how many times lifeguards have to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-by-the-numbers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brick_beach.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}