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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is giving distant escaped beingness jackets.
They accidental you wouldn’t thrust without a seatbelt, truthful you shouldn’t get into a water oregon stream without a beingness overgarment either.
Avocado Lake Park successful Fresno County is surrounded by informing signs astir the dangers of getting successful the water.
“Personally, I bash not cognize however to swim, truthful whenever we bash travel here, I ever enactment close connected the edge. I don't spell past my knees oregon anything. I enactment connected the borderline due to the fact that I americium precise frightened of water, and I'm not going to hazard my life,” Minerva Garza said.
Three people drowned successful Fresno County past year, and 2 person already drowned this year, according to the sheriff’s office.
They accidental unsupervised children are astatine the highest risk.
“Don't ever instrumentality your eyes disconnected of your kids, nary substance however aged they are. My lad is 26, and I inactive support an oculus connected him,” Garza said.
“You know, it's precise important to deterioration a lifejacket. That is the astir important thing,” Augustin Garza added.
The sheriff’s bureau agrees with his informing and says if you program to swim, you indispensable deterioration the due information gear.
“We've seen respective tragic drownings wherever lifejackets did not acceptable decently oregon were not enactment connected properly, and they were capable to travel disconnected oregon gaffe implicit the caput of an individual, and they subsequently drowned,” Sheriff John Zanoni said.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Public Safety Foundation is giving distant astir 160 escaped beingness jackets astatine 9 a.m. June 8. They volition manus them retired astatine Skaggs Bridge Park, Lost Lake Park, Laton-Kingston Park, and Avocado Lake Park.
They are connected a first-come-first-served basis.
They promote anyone who doesn’t get a escaped beingness overgarment to bargain 1 themselves earlier heading to the water. They accidental it’s worthy spending $15 connected a beingness overgarment to prevention your life.
“When we tin amended the public, we tin assistance prevention lives by providing programs similar this. This is what we do,” Richard Caglia, with the foundation, said.
Caglia says wearing a beingness overgarment is important, but it doesn’t bash immoderate bully if it doesn’t acceptable properly. He says swimmers request to buckle each azygous buckle and propulsion the straps truthful that it fits snug.
He says if it’s excessively loose, it could gaffe implicit your caput erstwhile you spell underwater.
