We must work hard to avoid such tragedies. Broken-hearted, the home’s owner broke down the pool piece by piece with a sledgehammer. Missing from her grandmother’s eyes for 20 minutes, a two-year-old girl from a neighboring home was found drowned in the pool and pronounced dead at the hospital. The fence around it had a hole large enough for a child to crawl through. We heard the story of a Virginia Beach man who had an above-the-ground pool in his backyard. Small kids are curious and clever explorers, and their sharp eyes are good at finding ways to investigate “cool things.” And what’s cooler than a pool of water? But risky too. In the U.S., more than 220 kids under age five drown in pools every year. We feel state laws should mandate that.Īnd here’s why: According to data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, one in ten child drownings in pools happen when a child figures out how to get through or around pool fences. One of our strong messages was the importance of maintaining effective barriers and fencing around home pools as well as pools at apartment complexes and condo developments. Safe Kids has spent time this summer educating parents and policymakers alike on how to keep kids safe while having fun around water in our report, “ Keeping Kids Safe in and Around Water: Exploring Misconceptions That Lead to Drowning.” The study was made possible with support from Nationwide’s Make Safe Happen program. And many of us are daydreaming about a cool swimming pool. We are all looking for ways to keep cool. This Friday, com says it’s going to be 95 in Kansas City, 98 in Little Rock and 92 in Houston. Today, as I write this, it is 93 degrees here in Washington, DC, and very warm in much of the rest of the country.
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