Emergency management offices share winter safety information
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 1:59pm
Winter Hazard Awareness Week is Nov. 9 through Nov. 13, 2020.
Wabasha County and local emergency management offices would like to remind people about some winter safety information:
• Many people drown each year when they fall through the ice.
• Approximately sixty-five percent of all ice drownings are vehicle related.
• Several children die almost every year in ice-related accidents.
• In 2019, 10 people died in snowmobile accidents.
• Many snowmobile deaths were alcohol or drug related.
