Service Tech Saves Toddler From Drowning — Page 8

This June, Gov. John Bel Edwards and KIK consumer products COO Jeff Schmitt announced that the company’s Bio-Lab division will make a $170 million investment to build a new chlorine products facility in Westlake, Louisiana. The new facility will be built on the site of its previous facility that was damaged by a fire as a result of Hurricane Laura in 2020. Bio-Lab is a leading company in the

A neighborhood swimming pool became a hazardous materials clean-up zone after a chemical spill on June 25. According to the Boise fire department, the incident happened at the Fairmont Pool in Boise, Idaho, when two pool chemicals were inadvertently mixed together during a delivery. The reaction of the two chemicals, (not named) resulted in a gas that caused several people in the area to feel sick.

By the close of 2021, changes to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (VGBA) will be fully implemented, which require new manufacturer testing to strengthen the law that resulted from a suction entrapment death. In 2002, seven-year-old Virginia Graeme Baker drowned after she became trapped under water by a hot tub drain. Following Graeme's death, her mother, Nancy Baker, started