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  • "Willful" or "Deliberate" Negligence and Drowning Accidents

    As any drowning accident lawyer will confirm, most drowning accidents could have been prevented if someone had been more careful. Even though some drowning accidents are caused by the unwise choices of the victim, far more drowning accidents are the result of someone’s carelessness. In legal terms, what a layman calls “carelessness” is called “negligence.” When an individual (or business) ...
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  • Carbon Monoxide and Drowning Accidents

    Drowning accident lawyers and first responders have been aware of an increase in the number of drowning and near-drowning accidents that have occurred in indoor swimming pools and, in particular, accidents that occur while a pool water heater was in use. In this post our drowning accident lawyer discusses a recent drowning accident at a motel pool in Niles, MI, and the potential liability of ...
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  • Swimming Pool Fences, Gates, Alarms, and Liability

    Having a pool alarm is a good idea, but alarms don’t relieve the homeowner of the duty to protect others from accidental drowning There are many types of pool alarm systems available. These systems include pool gate alarms to alert a homeowner whenever a gate is opened after an alarm has been activated and alarms that detect motion in the pool water. The latter alarms are primarily marketed to ...
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  • Dartmouth Swimmer Drowning Death Under Investigation

    Tate Ramsden, a 21-year-old Dartmouth College swimmer who drowned Saturday, December 26 th , 2015, was believed to have been attempting to swim four laps underwater without surfacing for air. According to a sheriff's report of the incident, Ramsden went into distress while trying to complete a "100" in the Sarasota YMCA pool after he had reportedly swam more than 4,000 yards earlier that day. ...
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  • Tips for Preventing Accidental Drowning

    Anytime you're around water of any kind there's the chance that tragedy can strike. The unfortunate reality of all drowning accidents is almost all of them could have been avoided. The following set of safety tips will help you anytime you and your friends or family are having a fun day at the pool, ocean or beach: Ensure that you're never diving into water that's less than 9-feet in depth. Diving ...
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  • Accidental Drowning Water Safety Laws and Regulations

    There are voluntary guidelines that were developed by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. These voluntary guidelines include both labelling and education. This is the effort of addressing the very real hazard of children having drowning accidents or death in buckets as little as five gallons. On face that might seem crazy, but the reality is that it's not a late night joke. ...
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  • Drowning or Near Drowning Accidents Caused by Murky and Cloudy Water Pools

    When there are swimming pools that have water that's cloudy or murky it becomes increasingly more dangerous. For instance, swimmers that are in distress can be lost easily underwater when the water is murky or cloudy and the rescue efforts will become increasingly difficult and sometimes fail. If either you or someone that you love has been involved in a near drowning accident or someone you love ...
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  • Katy Lifeguard Drowns in Pool at Recreation Center

    Regardless of who you are or how much swimming experience or training you have, the reality is that drowning accidents can happen to anyone—even lifeguards. Local news outlets have reported this week that 19-year-old lifeguard Dustin Kruthaupt, who worked at the Rosewood Recreation Center, drowned at the facility’s pool on Saturday, June 15, 2013. The recreation center is located in the Katy, ...
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  • Glenview Park District Pools Closed due to Drowning

    Last month a 4-year-old-boy was pulled from the Roosevelt Outdoor Pool by a lifeguard. According to witnesses the boy’s body was “lifeless and limp.” The boy died at a local hospital a short time after being pulled from the water. The boy was visiting the pool with 19 other children through a day care center camp. District officials have banned the summer camp groups from three pools following the ...
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  • Girl Drowns in Crowded Pool

    Joanie Logan, 3, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, died earlier this summer when she drown in a private club pool while hundreds of people swam and sunbathed nearby. The pool accident occurred on Memorial Day weekend, at a private club in an area called the Main Line at St. Albans pool. The girl's parents were at the pool and lost sight of their daughter for just moments, reports say. The girl ...
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  • Woodhaven Country Club Drowning

    Emergency medical personnel were called to Woodhaven Country Club on June 24, 2011 to assist Keegan Adkins after he found unconscious in the swimming pool . Witnesses state the boy was pulled from the water and CPR was conducted on Keegan by emergency workers. Although the club does have lifeguards, it was unclear as to whether they were on duty at the time. Woodhaven's pool manager, Leslie ...
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  • Drowning Death an Accident

    The drowning death of a four-year-old boy in a backyard pool in Groton, Massachusetts over the Fourth of July weekend has been ruled an accident, reports say. The boy was pulled from the pool on Monday night, but the circumstances surround the accident were not released. His name was not made public either, reports say. EMS was summoned and the child was transported to Nashoba Valley Medical ...
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  • Woman's Drowning Possibly Ignored

    Officials are looking into the drowning which occurred in a Fall River public pool to determine if the six lifeguards on duty acted improperly. Initially unreported when this odd incident occurred, the story began when a boy evidently alerted lifeguards to the missing swimmer. The policies are reported to be clear that when a swimmer is reported missing, pool rules require lifeguards to ...
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  • Drowning Death of Toddler Ruled an Accident

    After Ayden Anderson, 22 months, of Bloomingdale, fell into a neighborhood swimming pool, EMS was summoned to the residence and crews performed resuscitation techniques as they transported him to Effingham Hospital. The child, who was reported as unresponsive the entire way to the hospital, was unresponsive to revival, and was pronounced dead at the hospital, reports say. Reports say an autopsy ...
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  • Obstruction Charges Possible for Woman Impeding Drowning Investigation

    Following the mysterious drowning death in Hollywood recently, a woman who was related faces obstruction charges after reports say police feel she impeded their investigation. The woman, Shakira Williams, 22, was charged with resisting-obstruction without violence following the death of Tyerra Anderson, 20, report say. Reports say Williams and Anderson were poolside at a Hollywood home recently ...
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  • Area Reports Second Pool Death in Two Days

    A Chico, California man drowned in pool just two days after a first droning was reported just a short distance away in Tehama County. The man, identified by the Butte County Coroner's Office as Gary McKampson, 54, was found lifeless in the backyard pool by his mother, reports said. He had been in the pool alone. Emergency personnel tried to revive the man as he was transported to Enloe Medical ...
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  • Youth Dies in Public Pool

    A West Des Moines, Iowa younster died in a metro pool last month after being found floating face down. The Boy, Kaden Danielsm, was found face-down at the Valley View Aquatics Center on 81st Street when a pool patron reportedly bumping into Daniels, who was floating in the water. The patron turned Daniels over and realized that his face was purple and that he was drowning. After immediately ...
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  • Pro Football Player Saves Drowning Child

    Reports say Kansas City Chiefs NFL Pro Football player Leonard Pope saved a child from drowning at a Georgia swimming pool earlier this month. Anne Moore, the mother of the rescued child, took her son, 6-year-old Bryson, to a pool party one Saturday and saw him go underwater. She began screaming for help. Pope, who is also from the same town where the party was held, Americus, GA, dove into the ...
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  • CPR Saves Boy From Drowning

    A swift reaction by a camper saved a four-year-old who had sunk to the bottom of the pool, unconscious. Sandra Loza, of Spring Valley, ONT, was in a Marseilles campground pool early in June when a youngster, Colton Hecker of Ottawa, walked away from his grandmother, Tina Larsen, and re-entered the water without supervision. Loza, who was with her own children swimming nearby, noticed Colton ...
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  • Death of toddler ruled a drowning

    The death of a toddler who died earlier this month after family members found her in a pool behind her North Charleston, S.C. home has been ruled an accidental drowning, reports say. 21-month-old Nora Flores died was pronounced dead from drowning about 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 th , 2011 at Medical University Hospital. Even though Charleston County EMS failed to resuscitate the unconscious ...
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  • Above-Ground Pool Claims Life of Four-Year-Old

    A plastic solar panel ended the life of a four-year-old child in Gouverneur County, New York last month. Police have ruled the drowning an accident. Reports say that Thomas Keith Vanschaick, of Lisbon, NY, had been at a barbecue with his parents when the accident happened. The tragedy, which happened in an above-ground pool, occurred when the child wandered away from the main family group by ...
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  • School Trip Claims Drowning Victim

    Montreal Police are reportedly investigating a drowning that occurred at the popular Mont Saint-Sauveur Water Park late last month. When several attendants began screaming when they noticed a body in the water, officials scrambled to the scene and discovered a nine-year-old boy, who was found unconscious in the park's wave pool. Although lifeguards dove in to try to save him, even performing CPR ...
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  • Florida Toddler Dies in Apparent Drowning

    Police in Hollywood, Florida are investigating the apparent child drowning of a toddler last month. The child, reported as two-year-old Valentino Llenderrozo, was found in a pool in Hollywood shortly before 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. Reports say Valentino's mother left him unattended in a rear room of their home while she worked outside. The mother, Mariana Parmisciano, 33, walked from the ...
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  • Five-Year-Old Saved From Country Club Pool

    A five-year-old boy was saved from drowning in the club pool Wednesday at the Omaha Country Club by two members, reports say. The youth, Scottie Camero, was initially treated by the two club members, who were a doctor and a firefighter, until emergency services arrived. The boy, who was visiting the club with his parents, entered the adult swimming pool. He did not know how to swim. When a club ...
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