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Long Beach orders swimmers out of water after drowning

Originally published: June 23, 2010 10:00 PM
Updated: June 23, 2010 10:41 PM
By ANDREW STRICKLER  andrew.strickler@newsday.com

Quick ReadLong Beach police Wednesday began ordering swimmers out of the ocean following Tuesday's drowning of a 12-year-old girls.

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Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek | Students and pedestrians react on the beach after an apparent drowning victim was pulled from the ocean in Long Beach Tuesday afternoon. (June 22, 2010)

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Long Beach police Wednesday began ordering swimmers out of the ocean following Tuesday's drowning of a 12-year-old girl.

The decision to order swimmers out along the 4-mile stretch of beach until lifeguard chairs are staffed came after an auxiliary officer had to help a 14-year-old girl swimming alone from the water Wednesday - a block from where Nicole Suriel, 12, was pulled out unconscious...

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