American Red Cross Volunteer Lifesaving Corps

Recruit Resource Page

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Recruit Resource Page

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Welcome to the Recruit Resource. This website was created to help prospective members of the American Red Cross Volunteer LifeSaving Corps during recruit class. Our Corps is based on the success of the past to create a volunteer lifesaving organization and a vision for the future fueled by a volunteer mission to protect Jacksonville Beach and provide life saving education to our community locally, nationally and internationally. Our recruits are rigorously trained physically and mentally. It takes a long time to learn the tricks of the trade in lifeguarding. Conditions change, beaches change, it may take years to see really bad conditions in the ocean. This website is a tool to help the recruit learn these lifeguard principles quickly and supplement the education provided in the recruit class. It is not a replacement for the class. This information is only available for participants in the recruit class. For the general public, there is a lot of information about our organization available on the tabs above. Please feel free to learn about our beloved #2 Oceanfront North.

 

Last Updated on Friday, 23 January 2009 20:49
 

We are Volunteers

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Jacksonville Beach (then Ruby/Pablo Beach) was one of the first beaches in America to recognize the need for supervised water recreation. People were drowning, but they weren't deterred enough to stay out of the water. The first members of the Volunteer Life Saving Corps took it upon themselves to create the job of Lifeguarding, long before any formal institution could come about to pay them for their time.

Last Updated on Friday, 16 January 2009 20:47 Read more...
 

ARCVLSC & [paid] Beach Patrol

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The Corps and Beach Patrol are two separate entities doing the same job in the same location with nearly the exact same personnel, so it's easy to get confused. On Sundays and holidays, we voluntarily sit the beach for the Corps, the rest of the days the city pays us to do so on Beach Patrol. Here's an oversimplification of how this works:

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