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Officials caution beachgoers on Fourth of July weekend
Quick ReadHot weather is in our future, with a heat wave expected to hit us Sunday and temperatures approaching 100 degrees early next week.
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | A lifeguard stands at the water's edge amid rough seas on a hot, hazy and humid day at Long Beach. (June 28, 2010)
Drownings, near-drownings and water incidents
Beach scenes 2009
Long Island park photos
The early season's spate of three beach drownings off Long Island has parks officials and lifeguards warning beachgoers over this July Fourth holiday weekend to swim only in guarded waters.
With temperatures forecast in the 90s during the highest beach attendance weekend of the year, state parks officials said they expect more than 350,000 people to hit Jones Beach and 100,000 at Robert Moses...
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