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CBS4 Exclusive: It's Almost Summer...Is Your Pool Safe?

A month after the death of his son Calder, Chris Sloan is still trying to understand what happened to his 7-year-old son. "There is many horrible ways of children dying and it happens a lot of time, but there is something specifically horrifying, because this is just so random. Pool, lights a pool electrical system can kill a kid or can kill a person or you… it's just so, such an unusual, random way of dying," Sloan told CBS4. When Calder touched the pool light, electricity flowed through his body. His muscles contracted. The energy pulled his little body in and there was no chance of escape.

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