An entire outdoor pool season has come and gone since the deadline to comply with new federal safety standards for pool drains -- designed to cut the risk of swimmers becoming entrapped and killed by drain suction -- but many pools are still not in compliance, say state and local regulators.
National shortages of equipment and, in Wisconsin, engineers qualified to do a required retrofit...
ABC News Investigation Last Summer Exposed Fatal Problems
By ASA ESLOCKER
August 24, 2009—
Live television pictures from a Key Biscayne, Florida condo this morning showed a child sucked into a pool drain while rescue workers fought with jackhammers and respirator equipment to save the girl's life a frightening reminder about the continued problem of pool drain safety around...
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Rescue Crews have freed a 3-year-old girl's arm from a pool drainage pipe.
According to officials, the girl was swimming inside the pool at the Key Colony Condominiums located at...
A PROMISE TO ABBEY
Scott Taylor made a pledge to his daughter that he intends to keep. After 6-year old Abigail, called Abbey, was critically injured in a pool drain accident in June 2007, she asked her dad to promise that "what happened to her would never happen to another child."
"Those were Abbey's words," Scott said. "I told her I would do everything I could to let people...
July 6: Thousands of public swimming pools across the country are still using drain covers that are so dangerous they were banned by the government last year. NBC’s senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers reports.
WCCO ran a story called "Abigail's Pool Safety Party Has Shocking Twist"
Edina, MN - Start the summer season off the right way with safety and fun in the sun. Abbey’s Hope Charitable Foundation invites you to its “Spring into Summer” Pool Safety Party at the Edina Aquatic Center on Friday, June 5th from 4-8:00pm. There will be lots of family fun and 15 minute safety breaks from the pool every hour that will feature a life saving demonstration from the Edina Aquatic...
Edina, MN – Abbey’s Hope Charitable Foundation and the Walser Foundation have joined together for a child safety awareness campaign this year and hope to create greater understanding of preventable childhood injuries though a public awareness campaign and special events co-hosted by the two foundations.
The first event will be a “Spring into Summer” Pool Safety Party at the Edina...
Star Tribune ran a story called "Owners scramble to make pools safe"
CNN ran a story called "Some ignore law to prevent pools from being child deathtraps"
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