Fireworks Safety for Families

Fireworks Safety for Families

This video originally appeared on July 1, 2020

In this video interview, Angela Gartner, editor of Northeast Ohio Parent magazine, talks to Heather Trnka, Injury Prevention Coalition supervisor at Akron Children’s Hospital, about fireworks safety for families over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Find more resources here:

More fireworks safety tips from Akron Children’s Hospital

Fireworks safety tips and injury statistics from National Fire Protection Association

2020 Report from the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission

Fireworks injuries and Deaths Spike from COVID-19 Pandemic  from the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission

Facts & statistics from the American Burn Association

 

 

 

About the author

Angela Gartner has been the editor at Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine since 2014. She has won local and national awards for her features, columns and photography over the years. Previously, her work appeared in publications including The News-Herald, Sun Newspapers and The Chicago Tribune. She grew up in Northeast Ohio and is a mom of two boys. The whole family is busy every weekend with sports and finding new happenings around the region. She is also a board member and past president at the Cleveland Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She loves reading, writing poetry and taking the family's Scottish Terrier on walks.

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