Texts From the Lifeguard Chair Are Raising Concerns Over Safety

It's a good thing summer is over. According to The New York Times, lifeguards have been increasingly texting on the job.

This issue has really come out for us this year,” Bernard J. Fisher II, the director of health and safety at the American Lifeguard Association. said, adding that he had heard several dozen complaints about the practice this summer, compared with none in 2008. “Lives are being endangered, if not already lost, because of text messaging.”

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