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Do Your Kids Understand Safety At Home?
Exhibit Shows Children How To Stay Safe
POSTED: 2:58 pm CDT June 22,
2007
UPDATED: 5:35 pm CDT June 22,
2007
OMAHA, Neb. -- Do your children know how to get out of your house in a fire or avoid household burns? Help has arrived to teach them in Omaha.The Home Safety Council's Great Safety Adventure is an interactive educational exhibit. The mobile safety unit, based in Phoenix, is in Omaha for 10 days. It is a five-room house that shows children how to be safe at home."The stove's on," said Mike Crim with the Home Safety Council, walking a group of children through the exhibit. "Now, guys, if somebody walked into that handle, or my little brother or sister reached up here and pulled that handle, what could happen to them? Yeah, they would get burned, right? So we need to remind grown-ups when they're cooking to keep that pan right back here on the back burner."
Crim said that burning is one potential hazard children learn about inside the house."We focus on five dangers in those rooms: fire, burn, falling, poison, choking and drowning, and what we're telling the children to do is to call a grown-up when they find those dangers," Crim said.The council attributes 21 million hospital visits and nearly 20,000 deaths a each year to unintentional injuries around the home. The exhibit, called Rover's House, is an attempt to shed light on the threats and prevent some of them.The exhibit will be in different locations around Omaha through July 7.
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