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September 16, 2014

Kid sucked into pipe reignites debate over storm drain safety

  • NIOSH warned cities 12 years ago that installing grates on storm drains could prevent accidents. Many didn't follow the advice.
    • By RYAN J. FOLEY
    Associated Press

    CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When a 17-year-old student named Logan Blake was sucked into an Iowa storm drain and died during flash flooding this summer, the news brought up painful memories 1,000 miles away.

    Texas lawyer Loren Jones' had a teenager brother — also named Logan — who died in a similar way in Houston in 2004. Both young men were swept away while playing near elementary schools after heavy rains. Friends unsuccessfully tried to save them.


     
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