Bridgeport receives $150,000 to prevent drownings

The City of Bridgeport has received $150,000 in federal grant funding to help prevent drownings. Bridgeport was one of five recipients nationwide of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Pool Safely Grant Program, which doled out a total of about $1 million in funding. The money will help pay for pool safety requirements to be better enforced, and for better education about pool safety. “Drowning remains the number 1 cause of unintentional death to children ages 1 to 4. We know drownings can be prevented. However, the problem cannot be solved alone,” said CPSC Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle in a news release.

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