Reggie Jones is a living legend as the longest working lifeguard at Jones Beach. Reggie started the summer job in 1944 when at the age of 17 his mother urged him to apply for a job, in order to escape working at his father's gas station "as an indentured servant," recalls Reggie. Since that fateful day Reggie has kept watch over thousands of swimmers, a tradition that he has passed on to his sons Gavin and Reginald. Reggie along with other lifeguards faces danger on a daily basis, and has come close to death many times.

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