Summertime Safety and Apartment Swimming Pools With Memorial Day traditionally marking the start of summertime, a growing number of public pools are reopening across the country. These include thousands of pools across the United States serving apartment communities. As pools open, it behooves us all to take a moment to refresh ourselves on some important overall pool safety practices to best protect ourselves and our loved ones this summer. Protecting Against Apartment Pool Drowning An average of 3,500 people die…
Emergency crews have been credited with saving the life of a two-year-old boy after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool in Providence, RI earlier this month. Firefighters had been called to the Providence home within a few minutes of the toddler being found, reports say. But nobody knew how long the boy had been in the water. When emergency services showed up, they found a young man standing in the street with the little boy in his arms. The…
Just three weeks after a child nearly drowned at a South Carolina water park, another child was also rescued. Rescuers were called to Otter Creek Waterpark earlier this month after a two-year-old girl was found floating in the pool. The child, who was at the pool with a caregiver and a group of other children, was briefly left alone and the girl ran off to play in the shallow end of the pool with other kids. She went underwater and…
Eight-year-old Jesus Lara noticed a toddler in the water in his Plano apartment and assumed somebody trying to see how long they could go under water without breathing. But then he saw the bubbles stop rising and could immediately tell the toddler was not breathing. Although there were adults around the pool, none were in the water; a party was going on. He took a deep breath, went under water, retrieved him and yelled for his father. The toddler’s skin…
A man was rescued from drowning in a hotel swimming pool recently, but swift action and EMS response saved the man. The accident, which occurred at the a Saturday just before 5 P.M. at the Best Value Inn and Suites in the 800 block of East Kingsbury St. in Seguin, was The 27-year old man was seen floating in the hotel’s pool and emergency crews were called. Before they arrived however, the man was pulled from the water by hotel…