They should have gone with the non-electric, redneck pool heater.
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.
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.
“...electrocuted while enjoying...”
seems to be lacking any literary sensibility. or something.
Thank God none died!
They should have gone with the non-electric, redneck pool heater.
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.
electrocuted generally, if not always, means shocked to death. Thankfully, all these survived. And most likely proper grounding of the pump equipment would have tripped the breaker even without GFI
Hope they’re okay, better than a few trees around here that have been hit by lightning, now with charcoal inside.
Life finds a way when the squirrels move in, so there’s that.
No one was electrocuted as no one died.
Comments at the bottom are interesting and enlightening.
Include swim-out requirements and door alarms in the house, dual intakes (can't hold you down under water) and a fall-in wave monitor and it's around $10K.
All is money well spent for peace of mind and negotiation of your liability section of your homeowners policy.
Forget a diving board pool. Don't do it.
I can’t believe that Fox would write such ignorance in a headline. “Electrocuted” Means shocked to death. The article then says they were treated for their injuries. These people were not electrocuted they received an electrical shock. Electrocuted means- Dead. And that is by definition.
This should supposedly NEVER happen. WTF?
Time to switch to LED lights. Lower voltage.