Child’s death inspires national safety initiative ADVERTISING Child’s death inspires national safety initiative HONOLULU (AP) — The death of a Hawaii boy who fell out of a window in a military housing unit has sparked a national initiative to prevent
Child’s death inspires national safety initiative
HONOLULU (AP) — The death of a Hawaii boy who fell out of a window in a military housing unit has sparked a national initiative to prevent similar deaths at other military homes.
U.S. Republican Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio introduced a bill Friday that would require the Department of Defense to install window fall protection devices, such as window guards, in military homes.
The bill is named after Evan English, 4, who died in 2011. He and his family lived at Aliamanu Military Reservation in Honolulu when his father, Jason English, was stationed at Pearl Harbor.
About 80 children die from falling from windows or lanai on Oahu per year, according to the state Department of Health.
Shark sighting closes beach
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — Safety officials closed Haena Beach on Kauai to swimming after a shark was sighted offshore.
Lifeguards spotted the shark late Saturday afternoon.
According to a Kauai Fire Department release, the shark was a 4-foot blacktip reef shark.
Small blacktips are very common in Hawaiian waters and usually ignore or avoid humans.
Signs were posted to warn beachgoers.
Ex-rail officials’ strategy doesn’t go as planned
HONOLULU (AP) — It has become clear that the Honolulu rail project’s cost moving forward will not be as low as expected, officials said.
The agency overseeing the rail will have to pay its construction consultant millions of dollars extra to help monitor all the station work simultaneously.
In 2015, former officials broke the project into three parts in an attempt to open the field to competitive bidders. But by doing so, the firm that has a contract to help monitor and inspect the rail’s first 10 miles now has triple the work to do to monitor simultaneous progress on the stations.
On Thursday, the authority approved a $16 million increase to the firm, San Francisco-based PGH Wong Engineering, and expects to pay it even more.
