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Florida is as f*ked up and backwards as California.
MAYBE, you should read the article, it wasn't FLORIDA,
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Lifeguards in Hallandale Beach work for Orlando-based company Jeff Ellis and Associates, which has been providing lifeguard services for the city's beaches and pools since 2003.
MAYBE, you should read the article, it wasn't FLORIDA,
It was the company that he was working for.
That is what happens when you "privatize" public safety. The first duty of a city is public health and safety. If they want to privatize the library, cutting grass in the parks, changing street light bulbs or filling potholes, that is OK but public safety stuff is too important to privatize. You get crap like this when you do. If the grass doesn't get cut today in the park, nobody is going to die.
On the other hand, what would you say if another swimmer drowned in Lopez' appointed protection zone, while he was 1500 feet down the beach, in the unprotected "swim at your own risk" zone?
The swimmers in Lopez' assigned 'protected' zone (children?) were probably swimming there, predominately because they knew it was a guarded zone, and they would be safe. Conversely, the swimmer that Lopez saved was 1500 feet down the beach in a well posted 'swim at your own risk' zone.
A sign saying "Swim at your own risk" does not justify sitting there and watching someone die. Neither do the rules of some heartless company.
From the article,
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Company officials said other lifeguards watched over Lopez's area during the rescue and were on the phone with 911 operators.
"The beach remained protected at all times," Ellis said.
Also, in response to whoever said this guy didn't save a life, all because the man had already been pulled out of the water by the time he got there, note that the article says he did help an off-duty nurse "attend to" the man until paramedics arrived. None of us can assume what that did or didn't entail.
And so what if he had already been rescued? Was that a gamble the lifeguard should've taken? What if he had've assumed someone else would rescue the man, and no one did? I certainly don't believe I could live with that haunting me; could you?
He did the right thing. The powers that be at that company can go drown in some unprotected area while a lifeguard watches from afar.
Lifeguards in Hallandale Beach work for Orlando-based company Jeff Ellis and Associates, which has been providing lifeguard services for the city's beaches and pools since 2003.
This is what happens when you privatize. Write Jeff Ellis and Associates to complain.
News update, Fla. Contractor That Fired Lifeguard For Saving Man Outside Zone Backs Down
The Hallandale Beach, Fla., lifeguard who got fired after saving a man outside his coverage zone was offered his job back, said the private contractor that employed him.
Jeff Ellis, the president of Jeff Ellis Management, told ABC News he had offered Tomas Lopez, 21, his job back today, but he declined.
How low have we sunk when profit takes precedence over another human life?
Which human lives are you talking about?
The human life of one adult, that read all of the signs clearly stating that the area was unguarded, and chose to swim at his own risk............
or the lives of the women, children who read the signs that stated a particular area of the beach WAS guarded by Lopez, and therefore choose to swim in that specific area, because it was safe?
The human life of one adult, that read all of the signs clearly stating that the area was unguarded, and you should swim at your own risk............
or the lives of the women, children who read the signs that stated a particular area of the beach WAS guarded, and therefore choose to swim in that specific area, because it was safe?
So by your logic, let the guy drown, right? I mean, who cares, right?
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