PARK ASBURY According to officials, a 19-year-old lifeguard was knocked from her station on the Third Avenue beach by a blast of wind and stabbed by a beach umbrella.
The event took place on June 25. According to Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy, the woman fell and landed on the pole of a six-foot-long umbrella while she was perched atop a lifeguard chair, which was roughly five feet high. The metal stake entered through her back and went through her upper left shoulder.
According to Keddy, she was impaled by the umbrella stake on the ground when we got there. She was surrounded by numerous lifeguards.
Before transferring her to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, firefighters used a saw to cut the umbrella at both ends, leaving the pole in place in accordance with emergency protocol.
The lifeguard maintained composure and professionalism the entire time, he noted.
Her condition was unknown at first.
