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# Lifeguard memorial
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/lifeguard-memorial/
- Published: 2022-08-24T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T15:04:59.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Featured, News, beach, lifeguard, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

**Paddle-out:** The Los Angeles County Fire Department, together with its Lifeguards Division and other county agencies, family and friends, mourned the death of ocean lifeguard Derek C. Traeger on Sunday with a paddle-out memorial service at Royal Palms Beach near San Pedro. Traeger, a lifeguard stationed in Santa Monica, died in a crash on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Torrance last Sunday, Aug. 14\. He was 28 and had served with LACoFD - Lifeguard Division for six years.