Swimming Pool Safety

Pool Safety Tips Follow Swimming Accident

8 Feb 2012

The lifeguards at the Kirkwood Recreation Station Pool Complex put their lifesaving skills to work on Thursday, June 14, when a three-year-old girl was pulled from the water.

Special Olympian encourages children, inspires love of swimming

8 Feb 2012

It's not easy keeping an eye on the Fairfield YMCA swimming pool, especially on days when open swim and beginner lessons overlap. Youngsters splash and yell — some try sneaking under the shallow-end rope into deep water, while others run on the wet deck — and instructors chase after floating toys and tubes as their teary-eyed students (many first-time swimmers) sit teetering along the pool edge ...

Down With a Splash! ‘GASA Air Ducts Collapse’

7 Feb 2012

by PANORAMA reporter During Friday night/Saturday morning large parts of the internal ‘Air Ducts’ at the main GASA swimming pool collapsed onto the main public seating area, luckily, the incident occurred during the period when the pool was not open, which possibly avoided what could have been a serious incident with injuries, particularly if someone had been seated in the area in question.