Heat Safety: Check the backseat
Published Date: Jul 07
Keep your children and pets safe during the summer heat.
For more information regarding heat risk: https://web.archive.org/web/20140814011148/http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/heat/
- Never leave your child or pet unattended in a car, even with the windows rolled down.
- Always make sure all children & pets have left the car. Never leave a sleeping infant in the car.
- Make sure safety restraints aren't too hot before securing your child.
For more information regarding heat risk: https://web.archive.org/web/20140814011148/http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/heat/
National Safe Boating Week
Published Date: May 19
Ahoy! It’s that time of year again when families will venture out on the water in boats.
Memorial day weekend is one of the busiest, and unfortunately, the most tragic boating weekends of the year. Each year people are injured or killed while boating. The cause can be inattention, boating while impaired by alcohol or drugs, or it could be due to lack of safe boating knowledge.
The link below provides some basic tips and information to get you in a boat and back home safe and sound. Anchors aweigh!
2014 Safe Boating Week
Memorial day weekend is one of the busiest, and unfortunately, the most tragic boating weekends of the year. Each year people are injured or killed while boating. The cause can be inattention, boating while impaired by alcohol or drugs, or it could be due to lack of safe boating knowledge.
The link below provides some basic tips and information to get you in a boat and back home safe and sound. Anchors aweigh!
2014 Safe Boating Week
NWS Flooding Terminology
Published Date: Apr 18
image by John Bennett
In light of the recent flooding events around our area, it is important to know the terminology the National Weather Service uses when they are referring to flooding.
When it comes to flooded roadways remember the saying "turn around, don't drown!"
image by John BennettWhen it comes to flooded roadways remember the saying "turn around, don't drown!"