Category: Safety
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Backyard Swim Lesson Forced to Stop
Rita Shalhope started the program when she and several neighbors in the area put in swimming pools. “So I just went around to all the parents and said I’m afraid one of these kids is going to climb a fence and fall in, and I’m just going to teach all the kids to swim, which…
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Swim instructors push for eased restrictions
Learning to swim while keeping up with physical distancing is a near-impossible task. As Erica Natividad reports, that has some GTA swim instructors worried about an increase in drownings this summer.
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A firefighter dive into 40-degree cold water to save a woman’s life – KING 5 Evening
Around five-thirty in the morning, two Lake Stevens Fire Department heroes were called to a car accident down on the Ebey Island — which is the area between Lake Stevens and Everett. “Kind of the sloughs run through there,†said Christopher Harrott. A car was on its roof in a ditch full of water when…
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‘Health Guards’ help swimmers socially distance at North Little Rock public pools
Pool water generally kills the virus. It’s the playing and lounging around the pool that’s a problem. Health guards help prevent that.
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Man drowns at Spitting Caves
Reports of a swimmer in distress at Spitting Caves in the Hawaii Kai area were made on Wednesday, June 17, just after 5 p.m.
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Officials Recover Body Of Missing Swimmer In Patuxent River
A search for a missing swimmer in the Patuxent River ended Tuesday afternoon when rescue crews recovered a body.