Fired Florida lifeguard Tomas Lopez has been offered his job back after being let go for saving a swimmer outside his jurisdiction - and the 21-year-old has declined the offer. "It's another chapter in my life closed and I am just going to continue to get my schooling finished and get on with my career," Lopez told CNN on Thursday. The much-publicized incident took place at Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, on Monday, when Lopez instinctively went after a drowning man, though the swimmer was outside of Lopez's coverage zone, in an unguarded "swim at your own risk" area. Lopez...
- 7/6/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
It was what he was trained to do - save a life. But instead of earning praise from his employer, Tomas Lopez got a pink slip. "It was the moral thing to do. I would never pick a job over my morals," Lopez, 21, told South Florida's Sun-Sentinel after he went outside his beach's protected area to rescue a drowning man on Monday - and was later fired for doing so. "I didn't think about it at all," Lopez said. "Someone needed my help. I wasn't going to say no." After tending to the man, who was taken to hospital with water in his lungs,...
- 7/5/2012
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
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