No Long Beach weekday lifeguards until next week
Photo credit: Photo by Nick Stein | Unidentified people watch during the rescue effort at Long Beach June 22, 2010. The girl was pulled unconscious from the water and later pronounced dead in an apparent drowning, a city official said.
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Lifeguards were not on duty at Long Beach Tuesday because the crew does not begin weekday duty until next week, said City Manager Charles Theofan.
And police officers weren't checking in on beachgoers either, because city policy requires them to patrol the four miles of beach only when the ocean's waves are expected to be particularly rough.
The death of Nicole Suriel, 12, was the second...
