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To: Smart_Money who wrote (98136)	4/17/2000 9:54:00 PM
From: HandsOn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

I was only here a few minutes this afternoon, how is the little boy. I was cleaning my pool and had the gate to the fence open, my son was about 16 months. He had a long tube and I guess it got away from Him and He reached for it.Next thing I hear is a splash. I look up and see only his legs sticking up in the far deep end while I was about midway toward shallow end of a 30 foot pool. My wife was doing the dishes and we have two windows in the kitchen facing the pool with a counter there. I thought She was watching my son. I jumped in with my sneaks, shorts, hat and even glasses on and came underneath Him. As I lifted Him up onto the concrete deck He just looked at me and blinked until Mom came out screaming and then He started crying with Her. He took swimming lessons as a toddler but that was the last time I left the gate to the fence open while cleaning the pool.The screened fence is only about 2 1/2 feet from the pool. There are many sad stories down here in South Fla. re little ones drowning in either Their pool or a neighbors. The smaller the child the more Their are able to stay under without any lasting cognitive deficits. Even though my pool and deck are totally screened in, if You have a little one You need to have one of these pool fences installed by pros.