They should have gone with the non-electric, redneck pool heater.
Posted on 08/26/2024 9:17:24 AM PDT by Signalman
Five swimmers in Indiana were electrocuted in what police described as a "freak accident" in a swimming pool Sunday afternoon.
Officers, fire and medical personnel responded to a home in the 2600 block of High St. just after 2:30 p.m. in the town of Logansport, Indiana, police said.
Police said five people – including two adults and three juveniles – were transported to local hospitals for their injuries.
Medical personnel transported two of the juveniles to different hospitals for further treatment.
A spokesperson for the Logansport Police Department described the incident to Indianapolis’ FOX 59 as a "freak accident."
Police determined that a wire on a pool pump had been pinched, causing a protective cover to break. The exposed wire made contact with the pool water and shocked the five swimmers, according to the station.
Logansport is located in Northern Indiana, about a 90-minute drive north of Indianapolis.
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Freakin’ Weird. Happened on Kambala’s watch too.
It was some kind of submersible pump?
How stupid.
Never link to Faux News. Your linee leads to Never Trump Trash Faux headlines. It was, in one way useful, like one of those VAX booster reminders. It reminds me never ever to trust Faux Foo News.
I know. The pump for my pool is well above ground and is a good 10 feet from the pool.
Submersible pump in a pool where people are swimming. I was really wondering how the people became the path to ground from a live electrical wire in water. Were they inches from the pump while holding on to a metal ladder or something?
You would think that anything electrical used around water would have a ground fault interrupter (GFI). I wonder if this was “up to code”, or some sort of DIY cock up. Or an unscrupulous or incompetent contractor.
A friend once had to get a gig driving an ice cream truck, in Austin. TX. He backed it into a power pole with a transformer on it, and had (exaggerated) fears of it falling into the nearby pool.
and a loose live wire shorts against a grounded metal case and trips the breaker. Speaking of which where was the GFCI breaker in this circuit?
One person may have gotten shocked on the ladder, and the others came to his or her aid?
“...electrocuted while enjoying...”
seems to be lacking any literary sensibility. or something.
Thank God none died!
and not plugged into a GFCI? Why even have outlets near a pool that aren’t GFCI?
They should have gone with the non-electric, redneck pool heater.
We added a hot tub during the whole COVID thing and the electrician who ran a 60 amp circuit out to our tub was quite detailed about the code requirement for a Ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCIs) and why they were required by code (and a darn good idea to have as well.)
A GFCI breaker should have prevented this accident. Either the pool owner failed to use such a breaker or their GFCI breaker failed to work. If the former, lawsuits will be likely and possibly criminal charges for negligence leading to death.
No GFCI on that circuit? Sounds like a DIY wiring job.
Electrocuted means killed by electricity. You take the electrocuted to the morgue not the hospital. Idiot writer.
Yes, GFCIs do indeed fail.
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