{"id":163514,"date":"2026-02-21T04:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163514\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:39:48","slug":"solutions-to-lifeguard-shortage-fox-13-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163514\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions to lifeguard shortage | FOX 13 Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">As beach season approaches, Pinellas County is racing to fill lifeguard towers at some of its popular waterfronts \u2014 Fort De Soto and Sand Key. Despite a nationwide shortage, local officials are hoping competitive pay and the promise of public safety will draw in new recruits before the spring rush. FOX 13&#8217;s Genevieve Curtis reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0February 20, 2026 11:15pm EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As beach season approaches, Pinellas County is racing to fill lifeguard towers at some of its popular waterfronts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-163514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}