 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Check out these informative pool safety flyers from Safe Kids Tucson and Tucson Fire Department (in PDF format):
|
|
|
|
Click here for information on supporting the Tucson Fire Department's Public Education Division.
What is Kristi's Kids Lifesaver?
Three years ago, we launched our Kristi’s Kids- Be a News 4 Lifesaver campaign after we had a record number of drownings in Southern Arizona.
Last summer, the number of drownings in Tucson decreased significantly, but we’ve yet to make it through a summer without losing a child to drowning. This year, we’ve again teamed up with the Rural Metro Fire Department, Tucson FIre Department, Safe Kids, Sunshine Swim School, Pool Guard, and the American Red Cross to educate viewers on how they can prevent children from drowning.
We urge viewers to designate one adult around a pool with children, to be the Child Watcher, and to wear a Child Watcher whistle. You can get a whistle by dropping by the KVOA studios at 209 West Elm Street or at any Rural Metro Fire Department.
This year, be a News 4 Lifesaver, and help us eliminate childhood drownings.
-
News 4 Lifesaver
City needs help to keep pools open
Posted 6:00 PM 5/16/2013
TUCSON - The City of Tucson is a big player when it comes to swim safety. In two weeks most kids will be out of school and that's when Summer Splash 2013 gets underway. The city will open additional pools during the months of June and July.
Mary Williams has lived in the Stella Mann (More) • Video (1)
-
Adv. - more news below
-
News 4 Lifesaver
Prescriptions for swim lessons
Posted 6:00 PM 5/2/2013
TUCSON - When you bring your child to swim lessons, everyone's focused on the child. But parents need more information also.
Dr. Jessica Schultz, a pediatrician with Children's Medical Center of Tucson has a water safety talk with families during those critical well checks.
On the (More) • Video (1)
-
News 4 Lifesaver
Free SwimFest swim lessons are still available for May 9th
Posted 9:01 PM 5/1/2013 by Kristi Tedesco
TUCSON - Our first SwimFest with the YMCA of Southern Arizona is May 9th, and we still have openings for FREE swim lessons.
The YMCA partnered with Kristi's Kids and the News 4 "Lifesaver" program to help little ones survive in, and around, water.
FREE swim lessons remain for 3 to (More)
-
Arizona News
Ariz. couple sentenced for duct-taped children
Posted 12:09 PM 5/1/2013
Frankie Almuina told jurors he was playing a game with his children when he taped their hands, mouths and feet in December 2011.
(More)
-
Weather
Warm May start, Red Flag Warning tomorrow
Posted 10:01 AM 5/1/2013 by Jeff Beamish
TUCSON - Another 90 degree day on tap after the 10th warmest April on record.
High temps this afternoon reach the low 90's in Tucson, according to News 4 Meteorologist Jeff Beamish. Gusty winds make a return to the forecast as soon as tomorrow, thanks to a cold front dropping across the (More) • Video (1)
-
Adv. - more news below
-
Local News
425 volunteers to help build Habitat homes today in Tucson
Posted 9:20 AM 5/1/2013 by Faye DeHoff
TUCSON - More than 425 volunteers from different organizations and businesses around Tucson will be building homes today for Habitat for Humanity Tucson.
Volunteers from the Home Depot Foundation, the Home Depot decor departments and their vendor partners, and organizers from Habitat for (More)
-
Local News
EMT course teaches students how to prepare for the worst
Posted 7:20 AM 5/1/2013 by Samantha Ptashkin
TUCSON- In an emergency when everyone else panics, there are people we depend on to take control.
It's a tough job for Emergency Medical Technicians, or EMTs, a job that requires extensive training.
Tucson's Warrior School offers a 21-day EMT training program, where students like (More) • Video (1)
-
Local News
Tattoo shop burglary suspect not ready for his close up
Posted 10:47 PM 4/30/2013 by Sean Mooney
TUCSON - The owner of a local tattoo shop hopes video he captured on a surveilence camera will help him catch a thief.
Twice in the last week the Enchanted Dragon Tattoo shop at 2237 E. Broadway has been hit.But time may be running out, for the would-be burgler because he left behind some (More)
-
Local News
Search for child molester continues
Posted 9:19 PM 4/30/2013 by Rebecca Taylor
TUCSON - The search continues for a brazen child molester.
One year ago this week, a man broke into a bedroom of a home near Snyder Road and Melpomene Way and sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl in front of two other girls, ages eight and ten.
The three were vacationing at their (More)
-
Adv. - more news below
-
News 4 Lifesaver
First pool fence winner announced
Posted 6:00 PM 4/30/2013
TUCSON - Water related accidents are the number-one killer of kids under age 5.
It's why we launched the Kristi's Kids News 4 Tucson Lifesaver program four years ago.
We are reminding everyone about the A.B.C.'s of swim safety.
B is for Barriers: a critical line of defense (More)
