Lifeguard fired after saving drowning man in section he was not assigned to cover

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A young lifeguard in Florida has lost his job after rescuing a drowning man in a section of beach he was not assigned to patrol, local news media reported on Wednesday.

Mr Tomas Lopez, 21, was manning his post on Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, on Monday afternoon when a beach-goer alerted him to a swimmer struggling in an 'unprotected' part of the beach.

'It was a long run, but someone needed my help. I wasn't going to say no,' said Mr Lopez, quoted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper and WFOR television on their websites.

The unidentified man was rescued, then rushed to hospital where he remains in intensive care. But when Mr Lopez went to file an incident report, he was fired for going 500m out of his assigned area.