31-05-2024 16:15 via ocregister.com

Why is drowning on the rise in Orange County and nationally?

Even though it happened about 30 feet from where she stood, Eloise Burke didn’t see or hear her little sister, Ginny, die.
It was 1958, a warm but not hot summer day in Miami, and the sisters were playing in a public pool. Ginny, 7, was with some kids Eloise, then 10, didn’t know. And when those kids took their game to a different part of the pool they left Ginny behind, just below the surface.
The little girl drowned the way a lot of people drown; without a visible struggle or a sou
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