Q-2 Taking ideas from the hints given below, together with your own
ideas, write a letter to the Editor of a daily newspaper expressing your
views on the health hazards caused by watching TV and playing video
games for long hours.
In your letter you should
• Introduce yourself and state the purpose of your writing
- Express your concern at the long hours many children spend
viewing TV and playing video games
- List some health hazards caused by this habit
• Suggest some healthy alternatives to TV and Video games
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LEBANON, Maine — A grandmother and her 4-year-old granddaughter were killed on Monday afternoon after rushing floodwaters swept them away as they tried to cross Chick Road in East Lebanon.
The incident occurred at around 12:40 p.m. Fire Chief Skip Wood it appears the woman had parked her vehicle on Chick Road and tried to cross a puddle estimated to be 3 feet deep on the road with her granddaughter before they were swept away into Abbott Brook.
The Maine Warden Service identified the victims as Donna Dube, 50, of Lebanon and Saphire Perro, 4, of Manchester, N.H. Both were pronounced dead at Goodall Hospital in Sanford.
Dube’s home was across the road.
A third individual, George Eliason, 40, of Lebanon, tried to rescue the two, but also was caught in the current. He was treated for hypothermia and released from Goodall Hospital.
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Wood said weather conditions hampered rescue efforts as many roads were impassable because of rising waters, causing rescuers to be rerouted through Sanford and back into Lebanon.
“We couldn’t get down Little River Road, so we had to come in from the Sanford side of Chick Road,” Wood said.
The two already had been washed a few hundred feet from the road when crews arrived. Assistant Rescue Chief Jason Cole estimated the two were located about 200 feet from where the ambulance parked on Chick Road.
Two members of the town’s rescue department in cold water rescue suits swam out to the pair. The estimated water depth in the brook during the rescue was 10 to 12 feet, according to Wood.
Cole said the woman was holding on to a tree and holding her grandchild as rescuers swam to her. By the time rescuers reached the two, the 4-year-old was unresponsive and the woman was “barely communicating and showing signs of hypothermia.”
CPR was initiated in the water.
A Maine Warden Service boat with two game wardens and Cole also responded to where the victims were located, but arrived 10 minutes behind the rescuers. Both victims were unresponsive as they were pulled from the water, placed in the boat and brought to land. Cole said the two were taken to the ambulance and CPR was continued.
Both later died at the hospital.
Eliason was closer to the road when he was rescued, Wood said. He was hanging onto a tree.
There were conflicting stories another child may have been involved and unaccounted for while the rescue was occurring, Cole said. Additional searches were done, and wardens spoke with witnesses who only had seen the two.
Cole described Monday’s call as the most tragic he’s responded to in his 19 years as a volunteer in Lebanon.
“It is extremely difficult when you rescue a child the same age as your own and have to do CPR on a child and their relative. The Wardens got the boat back to the road quick, but time was moving so slowly for me being alone with the two unconscious victims,” Cole said. “I cannot imagine what the family is going through. Everyone did their best to get out to the patients as quick as possible, but the conditions were so severe, we had to make sure everything was safe.”
Stress debriefings for all who responded are expected to take place over the next few days.
The Maine Warden Service, Sanford Ambulances, North Berwick Ambulance, Acton Rescue and Shapleigh Rescue members and several boats from the warden service and Acton Fire helped Lebanon Fire and Rescue on scene.
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