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Sun Sentinel
| 12 months ago
No emergency rescues were required on the beach here Sunday, but plenty of help was available just in case as about 250 boys and girls competed in the second Florida State Junior Lifeguard Championships. Under a blistering sun, competitors from about...
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Vancouver Sun
| 12 months ago
A 51-year-old man was arrested in Penticton Thursday night for sexual assault offences including forcible confinement, sexual assault and assault causing bodily harm that date back to 1999...An extensive search of local police files and open source...
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Sun Sentinel
| 12 months ago
City leaders plan to give the lifeguard who was fired earlier this week the key to the city while considering showing the door to the private company that canned him. Mayor Joy Cooper said Friday she remains horrified by the way Tomas Lopez, 21, of...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
A day at the beach usually comes with the expectation that if someone is drowning, a lifeguard will swing into action and come to the rescue. This is just what Tomas Lopez accomplished this week on Hallandale Beach, only to learn a short while later...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Florida lifeguard declines job offer after being fired for saving drowning man A Florida lifeguard was fired after saving a drowning man outside his jurisdiction. He has since said he will decline an offer to return. (iStockphoto) A Florida lifeguard...
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Gawker
| 12 months ago
Tomas Lopez was hailed as a hero by many after he rushed to save a swimmer from drowning at Florida's Hallandale Beach earlier this week. But for his sense of duty, the 21-year-old was rewarded with a pink slip ...Four lifeguards quit their jobs in...
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People
| 12 months ago
Fired Hero Lifeguard Offered His Job Back And He Says No Friday July 06, 2012 06:40 AM EDT Fired Florida lifeguard Tomas Lopez has been offered his job back after being let go for saving a swimmer outside his jurisdiction and the 21-year-old has...
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SF Gate
| 12 months ago
Jackson Jr. , a Democrat from Illinois who has been on a leave of absence from Congress since early last month, is dealing with a medical problem more serious than initially disclosed, his representatives said Thursday. A statement from Jackson's...
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Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
The Florida lifeguard who was fired after leaving his post to help rescue a swimmer outside his zone was offered his job back but has decided not to take it. Tomas Lopez said he was offered an apology and the chance to return to work, but that he...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
when he's an "aquatic risk management consultant" working for a private contractor hired to oversee public beaches in the world's most litigious country. Tomas Lopez, a 21-year-old member of the Baywatch corps on Hallandale Beach in Florida, was at...
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The Hutchinson News
| 12 months ago
A teenage lifeguard was fired after saving the life of a distressed swimmer off the waters of a Florida beach...He left the zone he was assigned in order to save the swimmer, who was hospitalized but survived the incident. His guard's boss, Jeff...
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Sun Sentinel
| 12 months ago
The lifeguard fired earlier this week for leaving his post to help a drowning man was offered his job back Thursday. His answer: Thanks but no thanks. "They are trying to fix the wrong that they did. On a personal level, I just don't want to work for...
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Chandler Republic
| 12 months ago
The Florida lifeguard who was fired after leaving his post to help rescue a swimmer outside his zone will be offered his job back. Jeff Ellis, head of a company that provides lifeguards at Hallandale Beach, tells the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Tomas...
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Fox
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com A Florida lifeguard who was fired after leaving his beach zone to save a drowning man has been offered his job back. Tomas Lopez, 21, who was sacked by employer Jeff Ellis & Associates after his heroics Monday at Hallendale Beach, 18...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
In Hallandale Beach, Fla, lifeguard Tomas Lopez was fired for leaving his designated area. Now, some are rethinking the town's decision to outsource the management of lifeguarding. Atlanta The Florida town of Hallandale Beach is rethinking its...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Thomas Lopez, a lifeguard a Florida's Hallandale Beach, was fired for leaving his official work zone in order save the life of a drowning swimmer. "I ran out to do the job I was trained to do," said Lopez, 21, of Davie, reported the Sun-Sentinel . "I...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
nbcmiami A Florida lifeguard says he was just doing his job when he left his post to help save a drowning man in unprotected waters. But instead of a pat on the back, Tomas Lopez's bosses gave him the boot a surprising decision that led some of his...
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The Carmi Times
| 12 months ago
A 21-year-old Florida lifeguard was fired from his job after he went out of the company's beach area to save the life of a man . Tomas Lopez was alerted that a man about 1,500 feet outside of his zone was drowning, so Lopez rushed into the ocean and...
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People.com
| 12 months ago
But instead of earning praise from his employer, Tomas Lopez got a pink slip. "It was the moral thing to do. I would never pick a job over my morals," Lopez, 21, told South Florida's Sun-Sentinel after he went outside his beach's protected area to...
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Sun Sentinel
| 12 months ago
Executives of an aquatics company will review whether the firm was justified in firing a Hallandale Beach lifeguard earlier this week for leaving his zone to help rescue a nearby swimmer. The dismissal prompted a media firestorm and an outpouring of...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Just let the guy drown?" asked former lifeguard Tomas Lopez about the incident. (CNN) -- Tomas Lopez says he never thought getting fired would make him so popular. But since his controversial firing Monday, the 21-year-old former lifeguard from...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Florida lifeguard fired for helping drowning man Mr Lopez ran some distance out of his patrol area to help the swimmer on an unprotected stretch of beach A lifeguard who left his section of a Florida beach to help save a man from drowning has been...
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Inquirer.net
| 12 months ago
Florida has lost his job after rescuing a drowning man in a section of beach he was not assigned to patrol, local news media reported Wednesday. Tomas Lopez, 21, was manning his post on Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, on Monday afternoon when a...
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Gawker
| 12 months ago
Every lifeguard wants to be a hero, but you can't just go around saving people willy-nilly. Tomas Lopez learned that the hard way when he got fired for trying to save someone outside of his jurisdiction. The 21-year-old lifeguard was working on...
