Three Florida kids die after accidentally trapping themselves in freezer

mnbc ^ | Jan. 15, 2019, 6:48 AM PST / Updated 9:34 AM PST | Minyvonne Burke

[Drew68]

I am, too. Call 9-11 first...if they don’t answer...then hunt.

That's silly. People are always going to look for their kids first.

Sometimes accidents happen.

[Sacajaweau]

How did those little kids even lift the cover? I have some doubt.

I have another question but can';t say it out loud.

[Responsibility2nd]

That I believe. 3 poor kids trapped in a chest freezer could easily suffocate within 30 minutes.

But did those women immediately start the search? And why not check that freezer first?

[Red Badger]

It was a small chest freezer, not one of the old huge ones.................

[Sacajaweau]

Still, it’s 3 ft. high. That’s higher than a crib side or playpen. And it’s a smooth surface. Someone had to boost that one year old.

[Red Badger]

The 6 year old....................

[hanamizu]

A whole spate of these tragedies happened in the 1950s, causing all the manufacturers to design their freezers so kids couldn’t lock themselves in.

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I know in SoCal there were public service ads (and later laws) that said to remove the doors on old refrigerators/freezers.

[cuban leaf]

In London around 1900, the number of kids killed each year by falling into the boiling water used to do the wash was around 10,000. Deaths by these sorts of accidents are absurdly rare nowadays - thank god.

[sageburn]

Hopefully a thorough investigation and autopsy will show exactly how and where these kids died.

[rdl6989]

15 U.S. Code § 1211 - Prohibition against transportation of refrigerators without safety devices It shall be unlawful for any person to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce any household refrigerator manufactured on or after the date this section takes effect unless it is equipped with a device, enabling the door thereof to be opened from the inside, which conforms with standards prescribed pursuant to section 1213 of this title. (Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 890, § 1, 70 Stat. 953.) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1211

[logi_cal869]

A perfect example of having w laws do not supplant common sense

[OrangeHoof]

Back in 1968, my father moved our family from Texas to Colorado because he had taken a job there. The house was a lovely split-level ranch home on a huge piece of land. Later, I found out that the previous owners had lost a young boy while living there because he had locked himself in the freezer out in the garage.

I didn’t feel “haunted” and nothing unusual happened to us while we lived there but I found out that, years later, the house was abandoned and became occupied by wild horses seeking to escape the winter cold.

[Fireone]

One of the leading causes of death in very young children is a 5 gallon pail, with water in it.
Parents need to assess their homes, and remove the obvious hazards. This freezer was one of those.

[angry elephant]

A whole spate of these tragedies happened in the 1950s, causing all the manufacturers to design their freezers so kids couldn’t lock themselves in. Horrible.

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When I was a child in the 50s my father was remodeling some apartments and had some refrigerators in the back yard but he had removed the doors. We had no television so he must have read to do that in the newspaper or maybe just common sense from growing up on a farm.

[Oldhunk]

The hasp was apparently installed by the owner of the freezer. It was described as an “aftermarket” hasp in the local paper.

[Notthereyet]

What I don’t understand is how the heck did the one year old get into the chest freezer.

I’ve seen many styles of chest freezers and they are all taller then a one year old.

Did the 4 year old pull the 1 year old into it?

Sorry. It makes no sense.

And I cannot accept they’d not look in the chest freezer FIRST. It should never have been there....

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dreadful. RIP.

[deport]

[logi_cal869]

w = why

[logi_cal869]

w = why