Daily News | My summer job: A Philly lifeguard shares what it takes to keep the city swimming
400 lifeguards who keep an eye on swimmer safety at the city’s pools and teach young Philadelphians — her neighbors — how to swim.The Inquirer spent a few hours on the job with Howell to learn a bit more about the work it takes to keep the city swimming.As a second-year lifeguard at West Philadelphia’s Tiffany Fletcher Recreation Center, it’s clear that Howell takes her role seriously.
As she prepared for the pool to open on a late-June Friday, over a dozen young children played on the splash pad and playground nearby. One school-age child sat in a swimsuit inches from the pool fence, staring at the water on the other side and awaiting her chance to jump in. As the afternoon stretched on at Fletcher, the pool filled with more kids and teens. Howell watched them each carefully, noting it’s important to stay alert and it helps to watch the faces of the swimmers. Staring at the water makes it too easy to get drowsy, she said.Howell was visiting the rec center over a year ago when she saw a board covered with employment opportunities for teenagers. She noticed the lifeguarding job paid more than the rest.
The Fletcher pool was one of the first to open in the city this year. With a minimum of two lifeguards needed to open, Fletcher has five on staff. Howell said she thinks about Fletcher a lot. People in the neighborhood seemed worried and tense in the months following Fletcher’s death, Howell said. It’s reassuring to have a police officer on site, she noted, gesturing to the tent where the officer sat with pool maintenance staff.
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