After the Paris Olympics began in late July 2024, a meme went viral making fun of the notion that professional lifeguards are present at Olympic swimming events, calling it the most "useless" job in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Times story reported on lifeguards tasked with watching over the athletes, even someone as adept in the pool as ...

The family of a 34-year-old New Jersey man who drowned in a swimming pool at a Pennsylvania apartment complex last summer has filed a lawsuit accusing the lifeguard of failing to protect swimmers.

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Two YMCA lifeguards were honored by the Colerain Township Fire Department after they saved a man who suffered a medical emergency in the pool. On December 14, Colerain ...

This article was originally published on July 16, 2025. When Kevin Tarpley was a young lifeguard in the ‘70s, the city of Youngstown had almost a dozen public swimming pools. “You had a pool on every ...