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Safety Keep Your Baby Safe From Electricity


that will minimize a shock if exposed to water during bath time. Also, set your water heater to 120 degrees or below to help prevent scalding and save energy. While you were sleeping Sleep may be lost with a new baby, but there are pre- cautions. Install smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms outside all bedrooms and near fuel-burning heaters. Follow current guidelines on crib and mattress safety and sleep posi- tions. Technology Baby


New and improved electronics come out every day to make parenting easier, especially for monitoring a baby in another room. Follow manufacturer-recommended safety measures, keeping cords contained and properly mounting gear. Take care not to overload outlets with new electronics. Don’t Blink


Preparing for a baby; whether you are a new parent or an extended family member, is no small task. Along with a little bundle of joy comes a big responsibility for feeding, clean- ing, and providing a 2341101 secure environment. Bumps and bruises will be part of a child’s life. But make


the effort to keep a baby safe from critical dangers like elec- tricity.


Splish, splash safety


 kitchen sink. Be mindful of outlets in the area. Be sure they are special ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlets


Your baby will not be little for long. Before you know it, he or she will be mobile and new responsibilities arise. You may think a room looks safe, but peer down to a baby’s level to see what else catches your eye. The new perspective may alert you to outlets, cords, and other hazards within a child’s reach. You cannot plan for everything, and it may not be pos- sible to test all products and baby items before a baby comes home. Look for the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) mark on home electronics. UL tests items for product safety to give you a degree of comfort in new purchases.


Source: Underwriters Laboratories 


“As many as four electric coopera- tives sustained fairly heavy damage to their distribution systems caused by       Public Relations, Communications, and Research for the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives (OAEC). The  of the state.


Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, based in Norman, lost about 100 poles.         - sumed infrastructure belonging to Indian Electric Cooperative in Cleveland,” said Sperry, adding that about 1,200 of the


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co-op’s members were without service early August 6th.


Central Rural Electric Cooperative,


 related outages early August 6th. East Central Oklahoma Electric Co- operative, based in Okmulgee, also re- ported some outages, primarily due to loss of transmission lines after KAMO Power lost about 10 high-voltage trans- mission structures August 4th. The Oklahoma Electric Cooperatives have a mutual aid agreement when a sister cooperative needs help rebuilding their system. Other cooperatives help by


sending crews to aid in rebuilding the damaged portions of their system. Lake Region Electric Cooperative had a crew step up and volunteer their services. Dean Buford, Jason Steeley, Frank Teague, and Danny Darrow along with a digger and bucket truck traveled to Cleveland to assist Indian Electric      LREC’s Linemen helped by setting over 40 poles during their time at Indian Elec- tric Cooperative. These men spent 6 days away from home helping rebuild. One of the seven principles of coop- eratives is cooperation among other co-


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