HealthCheck Reports: May 2006
WPVI - The number of children drowning in inflatable pools is rising, as the pools get bigger and bigger - and more popular. That’s according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Some inflatable pools can be 4 feet deep and 18-feet, posing the

Pool firm’s clients get steamed
Boston Globe - Besides inflatable pools, floats, and other products, it makes steel-framed and “insta-set” pools that do not require inflation. Customers have told the Better Business Bureau it is difficult to get through on the company’s toll-free telephone

Watch a drive-in movie, from bed
CNN - Drivers also haul in old sofas, porch swings, inflatable pools. The Trapps send a chaperone around the field from time to time. Sometimes, by the end, people must be woken up and told to go. Down the field, Peter Trapp works the projector. He talks

Pool fence fines not pouring in for W-B
Times-Leader - Inflatable pools can be purchased for less than $10, Kratz has noted. Also, permits for pools start at $37, he said. Carol Smith, a city code enforcement clerk, said 20 to 25 pool permits were purchased this year. She said that is up some from