{"id":8125,"date":"2020-09-15T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=8125"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:17:37","slug":"lavallette-officials-recount-rescue-effort-in-deadly-rip-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/09\/lavallette-officials-recount-rescue-effort-in-deadly-rip-currents\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Officials Recount Rescue Effort in Deadly Rip Currents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavallette lifeguard headquarters. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The man who lost his life in rough surf in Lavallette on Monday has been identified as a 60-year-old Westfield man, but another victim of the persistent rip currents survived and was only taken to the hospital as a precaution, officials said.<\/p>\n

Borough Administrator Robert Brice said Lavallette\u2019s police department and Beach Patrol Water Rescue Response Team responded to a 911 report of two swimmers in distress at the Vance Avenue Beach at 11:29 a.m. Monday. Upon arrival, two Rescue Swimmers immediately deployed into the water, while a third member manned a rescue rope on shore, Brice said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLavallette Police and Seaside Heights Water Rescue arrived quickly to assist,\u201d said Brice.<\/p>\n

At the time of the incident, there was a High Rip Current advisory issued by the National Weather Service at the time, and wave heights were in the area of 3-5 feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cRescuers braved treacherous water conditions to recover both subjects,\u201d said Brice.<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old man was transported to Community Medical Center for observations, and later released. The 60-year-old man was unconscious when he was removed from the water. He was transported to Community Medical Center by Toms River EMS, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

The pair were reportedly related, but that has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

The Lavallette beach closed for the season on Sept. 7, meaning beach badges are no longer required and normal lifeguard operations ceased. A Water Rescue Recovery Team, consisting of three rescuers, is on duty at the Lifeguard HQ from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and in standby response mode only, ready to respond to emergency calls with the police and emergency services. Borough officials have said the emergency team only responds to calls<\/a>; its members do not patrol beaches or perform normal guard duties.<\/p>\n

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The man who lost his life in rough surf in Lavallette on Monday has been identified as a 60-year-old Westfield man, but another victim of the persistent rip currents survived and was only taken to the hospital as a precaution, officials said. Borough Administrator Robert Brice said Lavallette\u2019s police department and Beach Patrol Water Rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,2,8],"tags":[918,29,1788],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette","category-police-fire-courts","tag-drowning","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-vance-avenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/lavallette_lifeguard_hq_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-273","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}