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Lifeguards Kick Off Surf Festival

A chilly Avenue C Beach hosts the lifeguard competition.

The 49th Annual Surf Festival kicked off Friday night with the L.A. County Lifeguard Championships in Redondo Beach. Spectators draped blankets over their laps to keep warm while lifeguards went at it in various events.

"When it's cold like this," one of the lifeguards explained, "the water feels warm at first, but then you cool off, so you're cold again."

Despite the cool breeze, a few hundred people showed up to watch. Torrance-Redondo won the relay race. Dockweiler won the shallow water swim event. Zuma won the six-man paddleboard race. And Venice won the Bud Stevenson Intracrew Medley Relay for the fourth year in a row.

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The surf festival continues today.

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