{"id":93339,"date":"2019-06-21T18:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/consumer-agency-offers-summer-safety-tips\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:54:59","slug":"consumer-agency-offers-summer-safety-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/consumer-agency-offers-summer-safety-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer agency offers summer safety tips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As more family participate in summer activities, CPSC offers summer safety tips. Pictured: Hannah Ahern, 2015, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Ahern of Durango.<\/span>Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offers consumers tips on how to stay safe.<\/p>\n

Pool safety: Drowning remains the leading cause of unintentional death among children ages 1-4 and the second-leading cause among children ages 5-14.<\/p>\n

Never leave a child unattended in a pool or spa. Keep them away from drains.<\/p>\n

Learn how to swim, and teach your child how to swim.<\/p>\n

Ensure pools and spas have drain covers that comply with federal safety standards.<\/p>\n

Learn how to perform CPR on children and adults.<\/p>\n

Grill safety: An average of 10,200 home fires per year involve grills, hibachis or barbecues.<\/p>\n

Visually inspect hoses for cracking, brittleness, holes and leaks before lighting.<\/p>\n

Clean grease trap to reduce the risk of flare-ups and grease fires.<\/p>\n

Use grills outside only, in a well-ventilated area.<\/p>\n

Never leave a grill unattended. Keep children away from the grill area.<\/p>\n

Clean with aluminum foil or nylon brushes to prevent wire strands getting into food.<\/p>\n

Riding safety: Each year, thousands of ATV, bicycle, e-scooter and skateboard riders die or experience life-altering injuries.<\/p>\n

Wear a CPSC-compliant helmet. Wear elbow and knee pads when riding scooters and skateboards. Wear eye protection, boots, gloves, long pants and long-sleeved shirts.<\/p>\n

Ride bicycles in the direction of traffic, obey traffic signs and signals and stay alert.<\/p>\n

Use age-appropriate vehicles.<\/p>\n

General safety<\/p>\n

Check for hot playground equipment surfaces before allowing children to play.<\/p>\n

Dress properly when mowing the lawn in substantial shoes, long pants and fitted clothes. Keep children away from mowing areas.<\/p>\n

Spike beach umbrella poles into the sand 2 feet deep and tilt it into the wind to avoid it blowing away and injuring someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

more family participate in summer activities, CPSC offers summer safety tips. Pictured: Hannah Ahern, 2015, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Ahern of Durango.Durango Herald file The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offers consumers tips on how to stay safe. Pool safety: Drowning remains the leading cause of unintentional death among children ages 1-4 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5749,5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93339"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}