Pensacola Beach Lifeguards Return to Towers This Weekend

Pensacola, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- Pensacola Beach lifeguards are heading back to their towers this Saturday. Casino Beach will be staffed daily from eight-thirty in the morning until five-thirty in the evening. The crew includes ten new lifeguards and 65 returning guards who completed more than 60 hours of open water and emergency training. Last season, lifeguards performed 359 rescues and responded to 130 major medical incidents. Full summer staffing of up to eight towers begins Memorial Day weekend.