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RANDALL COUNTY — UPDATE:

Randall County officials have released the name of the little boy who drowned in a pool Sunday morning.

Danny Alexander says, 3-year-old Brad Anthony Letkeman was unaccounted for, for about six minutes. A 9-year-old family member saw the toddler in the pool behind the home on FM 2590. Letkeman was pulled from the pool and relatives attempted CPR until EMS arrived.

He was taken to BSA hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

Posted: Sunday, August 15

At 11:15 am on Sunday, August 15, 2010, Randall County Dispatch received a 911 call regarding a possible drowning in a pool at a residence on FM 2590.

A 9 year-old family member pulled the child from the pool where he had fallen into about 9 feet of water.  When deputies got there they found family members attempting to resuscitate a 3 year-old boy at the side of the pool at the rear of the home.

Deputies took over CPR and worked on the boy until paramedics arrived. He was then transported to BSA by ambulance where he was pronounced dead. Potter County Justice of the Peace Frausto was called to BSA to conduct an inquest into the death.

It happened during a family gathering at the home. 

When the cow jumped over the moon, all sorts of havoc ensued, but the popular children’s nursery rhyme made no mention of swimming pools – which is where one heifer ended up after she took a little leap in Dorset.

  It is unclear what prompted the cow to take a dip but the incident led to no end of strife for local emergency services who were tasked with removing her from the pool.

 The drama unfolded on Tuesday when the animal, named Daisy by rescuers, escaped from a field on a farm in Motcombe, before wandering into the garden of a neighbouring holiday cottage. But her meandering came to an abrupt halt after the startled beast found herself submerged in a small pool.

 Luckily the tale ended happily ever after – several hours later and following a complex rescue effort involving two fire crews from Shaftesbury, an animal rescue team from Poole, a vet and a hydraulic vehicle borrowed from the farmer.

 Fire officer Michael Stead, 41, who was called to the scene at 9.30am, said the cow – which was less than a year old and not fully grown – could have been in the water for a number of hours.

 ”It was amazingly calm and it behaved pretty well,” he said. “But it did make a few laps of the pool when we tried to put the harness on it, trying to make its escape.”

Minutes later Daisy was caught and sedated by the vet. The sopping animal was then harnessed up and hauled out of the water before she was gently lowered onto dry land and led back to join the herd.

 ”She was a bit wobbly and looked a bit drunk – probably wondering what all the fuss was about,” the fire officer said.

 The group manager at Dorset Fire and Rescue Service, who has 21 years’ experience, said the rescue was “not run of the mill” and added: “I have been involved in other incidents with cows but never one in a swimming pool before. We are just grateful in this case that it wasn’t a public swimming pool.”

 The cow did not show any signs of suffering following its adventure, rescue workers said. 

Sat, Mar 13 04:51 PM

Mumbai, Mar 13 (PTI) A case of negligence has been registered against the swimming instructor of a sports complex here in connection with the death of an eight-year-old boy due to drowning. Qasim Siddiqui (8) drowned in a swimming pool at suburban Andheri sports complex last evening.

According to police, the minor drowned as swimming instructor Jayendra Muskar (44) was busy teaching another boy in the same pool and did not pay attention to the victim. A case of negligence has been registered against Muskar, police said, adding he has not been arrested yet.

Qasim had entered the swimming pool at around 1800 hours yesterday. Two hours later, one of the pool instructors, Raju Palkar, noticed his body floating.

Qasim was rushed to the Cooper hospital where he was declared dead. According to rules, three lifeguards were supposed to be posted on duty near the pool, officials from the Amboli police station said, adding they are investigating whether there was any lapse.

Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study indicates.

Photograph by: Thomas Lohnes, AFP/Getty Images

NEW YORK – Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study released today indicates.

“These new data clearly show that by irritating the airways of swimmers chlorination products in water and air of swimming pools exert a strong additive effect on the development of asthma and respiratory allergies such as hay fever and allergic rhinitis,” Dr. Alfred Bernard, a toxicologist at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, noted in an email to Reuters Health.

“The impact of these chemicals on the respiratory health of children and adolescents appears to be much more important — at least by a factor of five — than that associated with secondhand smoke,” Bernard noted.

Taken together with his team’s prior studies, he added, “There is little doubt that pool chlorine is an important factor implicated in the epidemic of allergic diseases affecting the westernized world.”

In the current study, Bernard and colleagues compared the health of 733 adolescents, 13 to 18 years old, who swam in chlorinated outdoor and indoor pools for various amounts of time with that of 114 “control” adolescents who swam mostly in pools sanitized with a concentration of copper and silver.

In children with allergic sensitivities, swimming in chlorinated pools significantly increased the likelihood of asthma and respiratory allergies, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

Among “sensitive” adolescents, the odds for hay fever were between 3.3- and 6.6-fold higher in those who swam in chlorinated pools for greater than 100 hours and the odds of allergic rhinitis were increased 2.2- to 3.5-fold among those who logged more than 1000 hours of chlorinated pool time.

For example, among children and teens who swam in chlorinated pools for 100-500 lifetime hours, 22 children out of 369 (6.0%) had current asthma, compared with those who had spent less than 100 hours (2 of 144, 1.8%). The proportions with asthma rose with longer exposure, to 14 out of 221 (6.4%) who had been swimming for 500-1000 hours, and 17 out of 143 (11.9%) who swam for more than 1000 hours.

The risk of asthma and allergy was not influenced by swimming in copper-silver sanitized pools and children without allergic tendencies were not at increased risk of developing allergies.

“The only plausible explanation” for these observations, the researchers argue, is that the chlorine-based toxic chemicals in the water or hovering in the air at the pool surface cause changes in the airway and promote the development of allergic diseases.

“It is probably not by chance,” Bernard told Reuters Health, “that countries with the highest prevalence of asthma and respiratory allergies are also those where swimming pools are the most popular.”

The current findings, he and colleagues conclude, “reinforce” the need for further study on the issue and to enforce regulations concerning the levels of these chemicals in water and air of swimming pools.

A swimming pool has reportedly banned children from wearing goggles for health and safety reasons.

Dozens of swimmers at the Aqua Splash Festival in Whitwick, Leicestershire reportedly had their eyewear confiscated in case it injured them.

One mother described the rule as “potty” and added: “The funny thing is that the pool even sells goggles at the front counter but bans children from wearing them.”

Meanwhile, a father described the ban as “laughable” and claimed that it was more likely to cause swimmers injury, explaining: “You could see the kids at the end of the session – they all looked like they had been lined up and poked in the eye.”

The festival’s organisers said that they had introduced the ban after advice from the county council.

A council spokesperson insisted that the ruling was valid, explaining: “We have received advice from the Association For Physical Education which advises all councils that pupils should not wear goggles in school swimming lessons unless they have a medical reason to do so.

“The AFPE believes that children wearing goggles are at risk of injury, from colliding with other children or having goggles snapped back in their face.”

The Amateur Swimming Association also supported the move and said: “Our guidance is that goggles should only be worn by children who suffer excessively from the effects of water chemicals.”

By Catriona Wightman

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Alex Brozyna wasn’t sure if we already saw this photo, so just in case, she decided to share her copy with us. It takes a moment or two, before you realize what is going on here. It looks as if the man has jumped into a swimming pool, but on a closer inspection you’ll realize this isn’t a pool, rather a desktop computer screen. I’m not definitely sure where monitor becomes pool, and pool transforms into monitor, supposedly there is a swimming pool present at all! Probably this poster was created for a monitor manufacturer. Have you seen it before? If so, which brand did it advertise?

by Vurdlak

CLEVELAND — A New Year’s Eve birthday celebration turns tragic after a 10-year-old Cleveland boy drowns at a hotel pool.

The Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office says around 11 p.m., Demeion Bell was found unresponsive in the deep end of the pool at the DoubleTree Hotel on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland.

The victim and his family were celebrating a birthday party with five other families.

Delores Drake says she is devastated by the loss of her grandson. “He was very special to me,” said Drake.

Police say Demeion and his 7-year-old brother were swimming with a large group of kids. According to witnesses, four adults were there monitoring the children.

Demeion’s mother showed up at the hotel around 9 p.m. At that time, Demeion’s 7-year-old brother told his mother he didn’t know where he was.

A short time later, Demeion’s mother alerted hotel security. After searching the pool, his body was discovered at the bottom of the pool, in 9-feet-deep water.

Authorities say hotel employees pulled the boy from the pool, and attempted CPR. Emergency crews were also called to the scene.

The Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office says the boy was in full arrest when he arrived at MetroHealth Medical Center. He was pronounced dead shortly before midnight.

The sign inside the pool states that any child under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Hotel personnel would not comment on whether adults were present at the time of the drowning.

Demeion’s grandmother said, “He was a good swimmer but he always used to tell me, ‘Grandma, when I get in the deep water, I’m going to do flips.’”

The incident is still under investigation. The Coroner’s Office says an autopsy should be completed sometime within the next few days. Cleveland Police says it appears to be a probable accidental drowning.