On July 9, several members of the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol responded to an unresponsive female – not breathing, no pulse – in a chair on the 117th Street beach in the township’s Haven Beach section. Thanks to the lifeguards’ “swift and heroic lifesaving efforts,” the woman is now recovering at Jersey Shore Medical Center, as Mayor Joseph Mancini announced at last Monday’s board of commissioners meeting.

Mancini read a proclamation at the meeting to acknowledge the following members of the patrol: Chief Patrick Craig,…