Melanie Haiken
How Safe is Your Backyard
My friend’s first unfortunate mistake: Ignoring the broken ash-catcher on the bottom of his ancient Weber grill, which was loose enough to allow an ember to slip through. His second mistake: Grilling on the deck, rather than in the back yard. Add the two together and you have a tragic equation: A three-alarm fire that damaged the entire back half of his Florida home. View Full Post
Three Weird Facts I’ve Learned About Camping
Recently I headed out into the wilds with my kids, our tent, a campstove and an ice chest loaded with good food. A few days later I came home loaded with resolutions about what to do next year to make our annual camping event safer, more fun and more comfortable. I’ll spare you all the details, but here are three weird facts I’ve vowed to remember. View Full Post
Lighting Fireworks? Stay Safe with These Tips
Where I live in northern California, fireworks are illegal. But you'd never know that on the Fourth of July. From early afternoon until late into the night, the pop and crackle of firecrackers, the whine of spinners, the boom-plus-shriek of aerial shell rockets echoes off the hills. And as darkness settles, sparklers and Roman candles sputter up and down the street. View Full Post
Danger in the Hospital: It’s Worse Than You Think
In May, when Sean Williams’ 78-year-old father, Alan, took two sudden falls, he did the right thing: He called the doctor to report he was in terrible pain -- pain that was bad enough to wake him from a deep sleep. Yet two doctors prescribed pain pills and sent him home without performing a physical exam. It took a third doctor (seeing him for an unrelated condition) to realize something was seriously wrong and order x-rays and a CT scan. At which point, it was revealed he’d broken his back in five places. But it turned out those mistakes were just the beginning. View Full Post
Football Players, Heat Stroke and You
Last year, five high school football players died from heat stroke. Shocked? You should be. After all, heat stroke is entirely preventable. Yet this wasn’t the first such incident. According to the Annual Survey of Football Injury Research, 51 football players have died from heat stroke since 1995, 40 of them high schoolers. View Full Post
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