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PHOENIX<\/strong> – A big pool fills up the backyard at a Mesa home, and putting a fence around it meant big bucks.<\/p>\n With quotes starting at $6,000, so it was put on the back burner for a long time.<\/p>\n “That’s what took us so long. I just couldn’t afford it. It was a lot out of pocket,” said homeowner Deon Woodruff.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Woodruff knew something had to be done after her dog Dipper drowned in the pool. Dipper was a dog that knew how to swim, but for some reason, could not make it out. That was enough to scare her 21 grandkids away from the water for a while.<\/p>\n “Just scared everyone so traumatizing forever and they were scared of the pool for a while and didn’t want to go near it,” Woodruff said.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Then Woodruff heard about a program that offers free pool fences to families who qualify. The program was put on by Child Crisis Arizona, with five decades in Arizona on a mission to help families, including putting up pool fences all across Arizona.<\/p>\n “Accidental drownings continues to be the leading cause of death in Arizona for children under four and we know that layers of safety — a pool fence is a very effective safety measure to create a barrier between the water and the child,” a program representative said.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The pool fence program has a lot of backers, from State Farm to Firefighters Charities to SRP. The main goal is to prevent children from drowning.<\/p>\n “I think a lot of people in Arizona don’t realize we have some of the most pools in the nation so there is water everywhere. And if you have a young child that presents a consistent risk always going to be there even in the wintertime or summertime,” said Rori Minor of SRP.<\/p>\n Woodruff says the application was easy and the fence went up within about a month, 100% free. Keeping her grandkids safe is priceless.<\/p>\n “They made it so easy and they were so nice. It’s worth a shot to see if you can get these up, because if it saves one life, it’s amazing. It’s worth it,” Woodruff said.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this report was gathered from Deon Woodruff, Child Crisis Arizona, State Farm, Firefighters Charities, and Rori Minor of SRP.<\/p>\n Mesa<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – A big pool fills up the backyard at a Mesa home, and putting a fence around…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":957402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,26789,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-957401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-maricopa-county","tag-mesa","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116978131180516004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}