California lifeguard shot for helping sinking man

A lifeguard who remaining his area of a California seaside to help preserve a man from sinking has been given the bag.

Tomas Lopez, 21, was patrolling aspect of Hallandale Beach northern of Las vegas when he was informed that a swimmer was in problems in an unguarded place of the seaside.

"I wasn't going to say no," the lifeguard said.

But his managers said he had damaged organization guidelines and could have put other people at danger. At least two co-workers have reconciled in demonstration.

"We have responsibility concerns and can't go out of the secured place," Leslie Ellis of lifeguard organization Mark Ellis and Affiliates informed the Southern region California Sun-Sentinel.

She included that the expand of Hallandale Beach that Mr Lopez was expected to be patrolling on Thursday was being secured by other guards who were on the cell phone to urgent situation providers at enough time.

Mr Lopez, four several weeks in the job, ran some range to help the swimmer who had already been brought out of the water by other beachgoers.

He and an off-duty health professional then assisted the man until paramedics came to take him to medical center. The unfamiliar swimmer is said to be in extensive health care.

Mr Lopez has no remorse about dropping his $8.25-an-hour (£5.30; 6.60 euros) job.

"I think it's absurd, genuinely, that a indication is what divides someone from being secure and not secure," Mr Lopez informed CBS tv.

A co-worker, on figuring out that he had been shot, said he radioed his administrator to protect the seaside for him and quickly stop.