LA Lifeguard Summer Beach Water Safety Tips

We partnered with Toyota to attend this free community event

Did you know that drowning is the leading cause of injury-related death among children ages 1-4? Our Southern California Lifeguards are hard at work this summer helping to keep children safe and saving lives.

Toyota has partnered with the LA Lifeguards by providing them with essential tools they need to save lives – durable trucks. For the kick-off of summer, Toyota and the LA Lifeguards held a community event at the Manhattan Beach pier where they shared some water safety tips and offered demonstrations for families visiting the area.

We put a 2016 Toyota 4Runner to the test and drove it to the event where my children learned a lot from the LA Lifeguards. Along with families visiting the pier, my children got a chance to sit in the Toyota lifeguard trucks, look at all the gear, and even try on some of the gear. It was a fun and educational way for them to learn about the importance of being safe while at the beach.

These are just a few important safety tips from the LA Lifeguards to help keep your children safe at our local beaches this summer:

• Always swim near an open lifeguard station and never swim alone. Check with lifeguards for safe ocean and beach conditions.
• Never dive into shallow water. Feet first every time. Use swim fins and a leash whenever you’re bodyboarding.
• Keep a safe distance from piers and rocks, and always obey warning signs.
• Never throw sand and always fill in holes before you leave the beach.
• Protect yourself from the sun by using sunscreen and wearing a hat.
• If you or someone in your group gets lost, always find the nearest lifeguard.

These are just a few important safety tips to help keep your children safe at our local beaches this summer.

Help keep your children safe by sharing these tips with them before heading to the beach, and make sure and thank a lifeguard for their hard work when seeing them patrolling the beach. If we all follow these few simple beach safety tips this summer, together we can help to reduce the risk of drowning at our local beaches.