Marine Unit
Lifeguards
The Lifeguard Service is comprised of eighty personnel, a full time manager eleven Headguards and sixty-six Lifeguards. The Service provides beach lifeguards and rescue personnel on the fourteen beaches stretching along Toronto's 44-km shoreline. To accomplish this the staff is broken up into four crews.
Sunnyside, responsible for the western beaches and Marie Curtis Park, has a staff of two Headguards and eleven Lifeguards. The crew makes use of five rowboats, a kayak, a paddleboard, and a fifty horsepower Boston Whaler to patrol their beaches and Lake Ontario.
The Island crew responsible for the beaches of the Toronto Islands, and Clark Beach. The Islands are staffed with three Headguards and twenty-one lifeguards who use seven rowboats, two paddleboards, a kayak, and a fifty horsepower Boston Whaler.
Leuty Beach named for the street were the beach house is located is responsible for the Eastern Beaches. The crew at Leuty consists off three headguards and twenty-four lifeguards who use twelve rowboats a paddleboard, a kayak, and a seventy-five horsepower Boston Whaler to cover four beaches along 3 km of shoreline.
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