A young female lifeguard was impaled by her own six-foot-long beach umbrella in a freak accident that left first responders scrambling to perform a desperate rescue at the Jersey Shore.
The tragic incident occurred as temperatures surged on the 3rd Avenue Beach Wednesday in Asbury Park, New Jersey just after 9:30am.
Officials believe the 20-years-old lifeguard fell off her chair as she was trying to set the large chair umbrella into place.
'It was just a freak thing, as she was putting it in, the gust caught it, pulled it up, so when she grabbed it she was off-balance,' lifeguard Joe Bongiovanni told 7Online.
'She was on the top step of the bench, so she fell backwards off the bench and the umbrella came with her when she came down and landed on her arm.'
