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Home Security Tips Pool Alarm for Kids Safety

Most of the folks that own swimming pools are getting ready for another swim season. Family fun, backyard bbq’s, games for the whole family. It is Americana at its best.

On the dark side: More than 900 children between 1 and 14 die each year in drowning accidents. In California, drowning is the number one cause of accidental death for children 1-4 years of age.

But, do you really need these statistics to convince you to do everything you can do to prevent this from happening to your child or grandchild?

Facts from about.com

• Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children between the age of one and 14. (Centers for Disease Control, 2003)

• Nine people drown in the United States every day. (CDC)

• Two-thirds of all drownings occur between May and August. (Orange County California Fire Authority)

• Approximately 75% of child drownings occur because of a lapse of adult supervision of less than five minutes.

• African-American children between the ages of five and 19 are 2.6 times more likely to drown than Caucasian children in the same age group. (Centers for Disease Control, 2003)

• In the swimming pool, African-American boys, between the ages of 5-19 are 12-15 times more likely to drown than their Caucasian peers. (National Institute of Health, 2001)

Now you can protect you kids, grandkids and the neighbor kids by installing the Pool Protector Pool Alarm.

This Pool Alarm is an electronic monitoring system that automatically sounds an alarm when children or pets fall into your unsupervised pool. It’s portable, self-contained and light weight. The unit is simple to operate. Entry into the pool will be detected by the Pool Alarm’s electronic sensor, triggering a loud pulsating alarm at the unit and inside your house from the remote receiver.

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Author: Jack Krohn