Long Beach Patrol 2020 Video

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Each summer, the City of Long Beach draws hundreds of thousands of beachgoers, including a remarkable 17,000 who arrived via the LIRR on one weekend day last summer. Keeping these beach patrons - residents and visitors - safe requires a full-time, trained, professional lifeguard presence. The Long Beach Patrol 2020 video is your window on this professional beach patrol. The men and women of the L.B. Patrol are the city’s first responders on the beach. Their primary responsibility is risk avoidance, keeping bathers - many of whom have little or no familiarity with the ocean – away from dangerous situations in ever-changing waters. The Long Beach lifeguards : rescue swimmers in trouble, provide routine first aid, stabilize those suffering from more serious injuries and conditions, maintain beach safety until trained medical and/or police personal arrive on the scene, inform the beach goers as to water and weather conditions, act as an agent and representative for the City of Long Beach. It is demanding work - work that the members of the Long Beach Patrol have been doing with pride, dedication, and professionalism since 1926. Long Beach Patrol 2020, a 30-minute video jointly produced by the City of Long Beach Lifeguard Patrol and the Long Beach Lifeguard Alumni Association, is a virtual tour of the city’s 3.3 miles of oceanfront, featuring stunning ground-level and aerial drone footage shot by videographer Eric Krywe, a teacher in Long Beach High School’s Department of Technology Education. The video narration is done by Patrick Gallagher, former Chief of Lifeguards and President of the L.B. Lifeguard Alumni Association, and John Skudin, L.B. Patrol’s Beach Supervisor. The video covers the entire length of the Long Beach’s Beach Park, from Nevada Street in the West End to Maple Blvd. in the East End; providing a detailed picture of the area protected by the men and women of the Long Beach Patrol each summer, beginning historically on weekends from Memorial Day weekend, and daily from the last Friday in June to Labor Day. As they travel from west to east, Gallagher and Skudin describe key geographical features and points of interest, including access to the beach, bathroom facilities, planned sites for three lifeguard crew facilities and L.B. Patrol HQs. This includes stunning pictures of the Long Beach Boardwalk. Of particular interest are the changes to the beachfront made following Super Storm Sandy, including an extensive system of protective dunes and the completely reconstructed groins (jetties), which together have resulted in doubling the width of the beaches. Gallagher and Skudin also provide expert commentary on the operational history and organizational procedures of the Long Beach Patrol, the evolution of lifeguarding equipment and strategies, Long Beach Patrol procedures and beach coverage on summer weekdays and weekends, testing certification by Nassau County and the training of lifeguards. Long Beach Lifeguard Alumni Association Mission Statement: "To foster and promote the very best in beach safety, brotherhood and sisterhood, and the work-hard/play-hard mentality of the Patrol."