They knew about the danger. Eight days before 6-year-old Abigail Taylor became trapped in a country club's wading pool, the staff talked about how the powerful suction created by a faulty drain could ...
Incidents like the one that severely injured a 6-year-old girl at a wading pool in Minneapolis are unlikely if a newer generation of drain cover is installed, said Tim Shiek, owner of a Fargo pool ...
More than half of Mesa’s public kiddie wading pools have outdated drain covers that can trap or kill children. The city racked up violations in the latest Maricopa County pool inspections for not ...
MINNEAPOLIS — A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain's powerful suction, her family said. Abigail Taylor was injured in the wading ...
A bill inspired by the tragic death of Abigail Taylor, the 6-year-old Edina girl who was injured in a freak wading pool accident, passed a crucial vote in the state Senate on Wednesday, weeks away ...
The family of a Wake County girl who was nearly killed by a wading pool drain will not have to await years of appeals and uncertainly following a record $25 million jury award. The family of Valerie ...
ABC News investigation finds many hotel and public pools with dangerous drains. July 23, 2008— -- Despite a new federal law that takes effect later this year, an ABC News undercover investigation ...
A new federal law requiring public swimming pools to be equipped with safety-enhancing drain covers will take effect Saturday. But some local pool operators are having trouble complying and could face ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) &#8212 Tens of thousands of public swimming pools and hot tubs could be forced to close Saturday if they do not have new anti-drowning drain covers required under a sweeping law ...
Cohn, of Greenwich, Conn., and Baker, who lives in Maine, have united in their grief and joined forces to fight for tougher pool safety laws and to resist what they say are efforts to weaken them. "It ...