Category: Safety
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Sinking Driver Pulled From Car After Crashing Into Swimming Pool | Independent US
This is the moment a police officer pulled a driver from her car after she suffered a medical episode at the wheel and crashed through a fence into a swimming pool. Police bodycam footage shows officers smashing a car window to reach the woman inside the car in Kennesaw, Georgia. After breaking the window, officers…
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SANParks Donate 10 Temporary Swimming Pools to Addo Community to Prevent Canal Drownings | SABC News
The South African National Parks has handed over ten temporary swimming pools to Addo town, under Sundays River Valley Municipality in the Eastern Cape. The plan is to avert the drowning of children in the canals in the area. Countless drownings of children in the canals have been reported in the area during the summer…
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Learn to Save a Life: Local Swim School Offers Free CPR Classes | FOX31 Denver
Each year, about 4,000 people in the U.S. die from accidental drownings, but experts say many of those deaths can be prevented by being prepared. Alliyah Sims reports that it’s the reason Goldfish Swim School in Superior is holding free CPR classes.
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Oakwood University Student Dies After Swimming Incident | WAFF 48
Jeavonn Barracks, a sophomore at Oakwood University, died after a recent swimming incident.
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Crew Members Jump off Sinking Ship and Swim for Their Lives in Dramatic Rescue Video | The Telegraph
The crew of a sinking fishing boat had to swim for their lives in a dramatic rescue off the west coast of Scotland. Two members of the four-stong crew had stayed aboard the fishing boat, after it began to take on water, as it was slowly towed by a lifeboat back to shore for repairs.…
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11-Year-Old Boy Drowns in School Swimming Pool | Citizen TV Kenya
A family in Eastleigh, Nairobi is demanding for justice after their 11-year-old son drowned at Visa Oshwal Primary School in unclear circumstances. The late Iilyaas Abdikarim Ali Mohamud was reported missing on Tuesday evening when his father went to pick him from school. His body was later found inside the school’s swimming pool on Wednesday…
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City of Detroit Looks to Hire More Lifeguards Across Public Pool Facilities Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV
Lifeguards are the alert eyes covering swimmers and actions around every public pool in the City of Detroit.
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100-Mile Swim Challenge at the Plattsburgh YMCA | Local 22 & Local 44
The YMCA in Plattsburgh started a new competition last month and will run through the end of the year. It’s a 100-mile swim challenge in the facility’s pool.
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BGSU Swim Coach Overcomes Tragedy and Breaks Stereotypes | WTOL11
Rickey Perkins got into the world of swimming after his father died by drowning in a boating accident.