Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times story reported on lifeguards tasked with watching over the athletes, even someone as adept in the pool as ...

After the Paris Olympics began in late July 2024, a meme went viral making fun of the notion that professional lifeguards are present at Olympic swimming events, calling it the most "useless" job in ...

It had been more than 50 years since 66-year-old Gail Rodgers, of Sycamore Township, last served as a lifeguard Pools across the United States are closing as the nationwide lifeguard shortage ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — ABC 10News Anchor Kimberly Hunt was in the Barrio Logan community reporting on the Barrio Station Community Swimming Pool which has a lifeguard shortage going into the peak of pool ...

The Youngstown Lifeguard Academy teaches teens from the city how to swim and then trains them to be lifeguards, keeping the city's last remaining public swimming pool staffed and safe. When Kevin ...

At North Beach in Burlington, Alec Kaeding is putting lifeguard towers in storage and buying “swim at your own risk” signs in bulk. The city’s waterfront and parks operations manager said that, before ...

ACTON, Mass. (WHDH) - A 19-year-old lifeguard on her break jumped into action to save a 5-year-old boy who sank to the bottom of a public swimming pool. Sunday was like any hot summer day at the pool ...

This article was originally published on July 16, 2025. When Kevin Tarpley was a young lifeguard in the ‘70s, the city of Youngstown had almost a dozen public swimming pools. “You had a pool on every ...