Can you Imagine that they closed all but one pool on the hottest summer on record, because of the Gang Wars that have been going on, those Gang Wars are real, and they have been fighing in the streets of San Bernardino, Rialto, Fontana, and a small amount in Rancho. So for the most part if you even look like you might be a ganster driving on the freeway that is what got many people shot at on the freeway, well that is my beleif, anyway!! I don't know for sure!! Police Intuition?
Since the City of San Bernardino cannot afford to open the Pool for Free, and supply a Armed Guard for all the Pools they had to close all of them down for Fear that they were going to catch lead at them when they werre disarmed, why even the Life guards fled the locations becasue the last shooting at the Pool was two life guards that were shot.
I guess now that the summer is almost to an end that they have come to some kind of Plan maybe next year when it comes to opening the pools. It was a good idea that the mayor had through the Operation Phoenix to open the Pools this summer and allow people to swim free, however they had a shootiing and that changed everything!! Sucks. to be in San Bernardino right now, but Never Fear..Operation Phoenix is Here!!
So far the third quarter Homicides are down!!
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Staff shortage forces closures
SAN BERNARDINO POOLS: Safety fears and a gun rumor drive lifeguards to walk off the job.
SAN BERNARDINO - At least two city pools remained closed Saturday because of a lack of lifeguards, putting a damper on the mayor's effort to increase youth programs and counter a wave of violent crime in San Bernardino.
Most of the lifeguards employed at five city pools did not show up for work on Friday because they had concerns for their safety, officials said.
Pools at the Rudy C. Hernandez and Ruben Campos community centers remained closed Saturday.
The pool closures disappointed families who had come to the pools to escape triple-digit heat. Armando Roman, 43, of Rialto, said he was surprised there was no notice explaining why the Campos pool was closed when he went there Saturday afternoon with his son, Armando Jr.
"We came to see if we could swim, but we couldn't," Armando Sr. said.
Danny Thompson, a recreation leader at the Hernandez center, said the pool would remain closed until certified lifeguards are assigned to it. He said the pool might re-open next week.
City Councilwoman Wendy McCammack said about 18 teenage lifeguards walked off the job shortly after noon Friday.
Lifeguards have been increasingly concerned about safety for the past two weeks, since a fight occurred at the Jerry Lewis Family Swim Center, McCammack said.
On Thursday, lifeguards at that pool overheard a parent talking to Parks and Recreation supervisors about someone bringing a gun to the facility, and passed the word to friends at other pools, McCammack said.
City officials said the rumor was unfounded.
San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris said he was struck by how quickly the gun rumor spread, apparently via teens with cell phones.
"This was completely out of proportion to the circumstances," Morris said. "We want people to know they can be safe in the city's pools."
Jim Morris, the mayor's son and chief of staff, said lifeguards walked off the job on Friday because of a misunderstanding over how much adult supervision would be available at the pools.
The lifeguards and city officials had talked on Thursday about providing the pools with more adult supervision, Jim Morris said. The lifeguards had wanted the city's Parks and Recreation officials to provide them with full-time employees so that lifeguards would not have to deal with fights or other disturbances, Jim Morris said.
"We thought we had reached an understanding," Jim Morris said, adding that the city is training extra lifeguards who should be ready for duty sometime this week.
City code-compliance director Glenn Baude, who is overseeing the pilot program for Operation Phoenix, an anti-crime project in an uptown neighborhood, was perplexed by the walkout.
Baude said the only violence at a city pool he knew of occurred two weeks ago, when two girls got in a fight at the Jerry Lewis Community Center pool. One of the girls shoved a lifeguard who intervened, Baude said.
"I don't consider it unsafe to be there at all," Baude said.
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