DROWNING PREVENTION TIPS                          City of Pembroke Pines                  Parks and Recreation Department

Did you know? From 1998 to 2002 there were a total of 52 drowning deaths of children 5 and under in Broward County.  An average of 10 deaths per year.   The majority of the drownings occur in residential pools while children are unattended.    The majority of children who drown in swimming pools were last seen in the home, had been missing from sight for less than 5 minutes, and were in the care of one or both parents at the time of the drowning.   Unprotected in-ground pools are 60 percent more likely to be involved in drowning than pools with complete four-sided isolation fencing. To learn more, please click here.  To view this information, free Adobe Acrobat reader is required.  If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat reader, please click here.