Lifeguard impaled by umbrella at Asbury Park beach in gruesome scene
A female lifeguard was impaled so deeply by a beach umbrella at the Jersey Shore that it had to be cut into smaller pieces with a saw before she could be taken to the hospital, officials said.
Fellow lifeguards and EMS responded to a call of a young woman who had been impaled by a roughly 6-foot-long umbrella at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Asbury Park’s 3rd Avenue Beach, fire officials said.
“The umbrella went underneath her left shoulder and out the back,” Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy told The Post.

“It was protruding by about a foot,” he added of the grisly injury.
Officials are looking into whether the woman may have been chasing an umbrella blowing in the wind and fallen on the stake.
Responders had to use a bandsaw to cut off the stake in order to fit the woman into an ambulance.
“We had to saw off the stake from the front and the back to make it more manageable. We bandaged her up and transported her to the hospital,” Kenny said.
The victim, who was conscious and alert throughout the incident, was rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, Keddy said.
“When we dropped her off, she was conscious and alert and in good spirits — all things considered,” he added.
Injuries and deaths from umbrellas careening down beaches after they’ve been caught in the wind are not unheard of.

The spiked end of the umbrellas can become lethal once a gust of wind catches the beach staple’s canopy and sends it flying, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The federal agency estimates about 3,000 people are injured by beach umbrellas every year.
In 2022, 63-year-old Tammy Perreault was killed after a beach umbrella broke loose from its anchor on a South Carolina beach and impaled her in the torso.
And in 2016, 55-year-old Lottie Michelle Belk was killed by a windblown beach umbrella in Virginia Beach.