India, June 26 -- A female lifeguard was impaled by a beach umbrella at the Jersey Shore this week, which became a dangerous projectile due to wind gusts.

The young woman was struck by a roughly six-foot-long umbrella that pierced through her body, entering beneath her left shoulder and exiting through her back around 9:30 AM on Wednesday at Asbury Park's 3rd Avenue Beach.

"The umbrella went underneath her left shoulder and out the back," said Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy in a statement to The New York Post. "It was protruding by about a foot," he added.

Emergency responders, including fellow lifeguards and EMS personnel, rushed to the scene after a call came in.

"We had to saw off the stake from the front and the back to make i...