: Lifeguard Marc Brown (with rescue paddleboard) and Sgt. Casey Owens demonstrate a response to a nighttime swimmer-in-distress call at Mission Beach in 2010. Brown was honored with the U.S. Lifeguard Association's highest honor — the Medal of Valor — on Oct. 23 for saving the life of an illegal immigrant trapped in a flooded drainpipe in the Tijuana River Valley in November. Photo by Don Balch I Beach & Bay Press
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