 Thank you so much for being here today. I'm Sean Boyd, Public Information Officer with Cal OES, Governor's Office of Emergency Services. We're streaming this live on multiple channels, Cal OES, Cal Fit, as well as Metro Fires, different social media streaming services. So, welcome. We appreciate anybody who's tuning in right now and watching and we appreciate the media for being here as well. We are here because we are about to today launch officially a very important public service announcement campaign and it is called Deadly Silence, Are You Listening? And the reason for that will be explained shortly. Right now, we have a number of folks who are assembled behind us, all of whom are either first responders in one way or another, involved in pool safety, or are the subject of our public service announcement. So, I'm going to introduce Captain Chris Vestal, who is with Sacramento Metro Fire and he will take it from there. Chris. Thank you, Sean. And good morning. The real emphasis of why we're here is to prevent the childhood drowning in pools of children under the age of five. But that shouldn't diminish the fact that children older and even adults also have the same problem and that there's also an issue not just in pools, but other bodies of water too. One of the big points of a weekend coming up like this, at least in the Sacramento region, where we have triple digit temperatures, where we expect everybody to be out at their pool, is just the general safety. If you're going to be out in the sun and being exposed to the high temperatures, make sure you hydrate with non-alcoholic beverages, protect yourself from the sun, sunscreens, shade, and overall, have somebody watching your children especially. Now, I brought my daughter out here today who's a very avid swimmer, at least in her own, right? And she's always wanting to get in. But one of the things we're trying to teach her is make sure a parent is there. If you see one of your friends and they're in the pool and they're not making noise, let an adult know. There's a lot of different things that children do around pools and that we as families do that could distract us. So bring it right back in, watch your children, make sure your children are wearing the PFDs or personal flotation devices or life jackets as they're sometimes commonly called, and just have a good time in the sun. This is too nice of a weekend, this is too nice of a summer season, we all love the weather in California, and we all want you to enjoy it up and down the state of California. I'll hand off to Chief Larry Collins now from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Good morning, my name is Larry Collins with Cal OES, the Deputy Fire Chief for Special Operations. And what I'd like to remind everybody in addition to the swimming pool safety issue and the need to really watch your children when they're in the pool around the water is to reiterate some of the specific dangers that we're encountering in this state with the record snow melt and the record flows that we're getting in the rivers and streams of California. The waters move in fast, it's high, and it's cold. And we've had a number of drownings in the state, somewhere in the range of at least 15 that I'm aware of thus far in the rivers and streams of California, including one just recently where a child went in, a three-year-old went in and the father went missing after trying to rescue his child. And that's all too familiar a scenario for a summertime like this where we have hot temperatures and everybody wants to get in the water but the rivers and streams are flowing fast. So our advice is to stay away from the fast-moving water, keep your children away from areas where they can fall in, and back to the swimming pool scenario. Just keep watching your kids and don't get distracted and get led into the scenarios where we have these silent drownings. Thank you very much. Okay so real quickly here I want to introduce Becky who is with California Family Fitness. She's also, well I'm going to let you explain exactly what your role is here. Thank you. Okay. Hi I'm Becky. I'm the Aquatics Director from California Family Fitness and I would like to take a few minutes to discuss pool and swim lesson safety. Good morning. California Family Fitness is proud to be teaming up with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services as well as the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire to raise awareness on this important issue of pool safety. We commend the two organizations for this water safety awareness program and remind adults who are supervising children to remain vigilant and without distractions when watching children near water. With the official start of summer right around the corner, a time when families start to spend more time around the water, this is a perfect time to talk about swim safety and swim lessons. Studies show that children enrolled in swim lessons reduce the risk of drowning by 88 percent. It is the number two cause of death in children under five. California Family Fitness offers swim lessons for adults and children that are taught by lifeguards certified water safety instructors and aquatic safety instructors. In private group settings, private or group settings, adult children, we offer lessons on the weekends. We have many programs available to help everyone learn to swim. I'd also like to strongly recommend investing in a U.S. Coast Guard certified life jacket. They are the only ones that are actual flotation devices. In fact, everything from water wings to rafts to inner tubes say this is not a flotation device. So you want to make sure the life jacket fits properly. It doesn't slip off and it keeps the child's head above water. These are also there to assist you and not to kind of relieve responsibility of the child in the water. As I said before, parents must remain vigilant in watching their children. So if you're providing adult supervision, you need to make sure you're not on your phone reading a book. You need to really eliminate all distractions. Also creating basic rules around the pool and any body of water can help establish what the children are supposed to do when they're out there with you. Never swim alone. Always wear a life vest. Don't swim out to where the parent or the adult can't see you. I would also again like to thank the governor's office of emergency services and Metropolitan Fire Department for launching this campaign to keep parents and children safe. Thank you. Okay, so we don't want to take too much more of your time, but we do have an important guest that we want to introduce you to. And she as well as her grandson are the subjects of this PSA, which we'll show you here momentarily. But finally, we have Pam Bryant, who is, like I said, the subject of the public service announcement. She has a couple of words she wants to say and then we will wrap it up and there'll be availabilities for one-on-ones. So, Pam Bryant. Hello. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I am the grandmother of this young man here, Joshua Briggs. And when he was 16 months old, I had a situation. He actually drowned in my pool and it was not from neglect. I thought I had my eye on him, but it takes one second. I answered the phone, turned my back, and what did you do, Josh? Crawled through the doggie door into the pool. He crawled with my dog through the doggie door and that's when I found him. It took one minute of me turning my back and losing track of where he was. And so, I tell people, keep your eye on your children. Make sure all your doors are locked. If you have a pool fence, that helps. We didn't at the time and we did put one in. And so, five days in intensive care, we are now here to tell the story. It's a success story, unlike some people, unfortunately. And look at him now. Joshua Briggs is here to tell his story, but please know where your children are at all times. Thank you. So, today, nowadays, the things I see are big distractions or phones. Like, those can be causes of a lot of, like, mishappings and, like, making yourself go off track and stuff and not being aware of your surroundings. And another big thing that my granny said is a pool fence with a lock, a secure lock on it. That would be good to have around your pool. Thank you. There's a couple points we want to make sure that it really hits home. We have over 50 children below the age of five who drown every year in swimming pools at a home in California. That's roughly two kindergarten classrooms full of kids. That kind of puts it into context. Most of us who have children about that age, that would be half the kindergartners at one of our schools. And we just don't want that. I mean, one is too many, regardless of where it is, if it's concentrated in an area or across the whole state, especially when it's preventable. And for children that age, it absolutely is preventable for watching them. That's a point I would like to reiterate from Pam. The second thing is CPR. We encourage everybody to learn CPR. And if you do have the unfortunate circumstance where you have to rescue a family member or anybody out of the water, do CPR. And what we brought with us today is our sidewalk CPR program for Metro Fire. And we've actually had several instances where people have been saved from people who went through one of our sidewalk CPR training programs, which literally takes two to three minutes to learn. It's a compression only based system. And you don't even have to be certified, but you have to know what to do. So that's something that we'll be showing you right after this, as well as showing you the public service announcement videos that we've made. And those will be available in both English and Spanish for delivery across the state. Thank you, Chris. And thank you to everybody here who has shown support here for this cause. It's really important, obviously. Special thanks to CalFit for allowing us to come in and invade their pool area and for this important message. So here in just a minute, we're going to show you some examples of the versions that Chris mentioned. We're going to have both the English and Spanish versions, which are both downloadable from the Cal OES website, which is oesnews.com slash are you listening because it is deadly and you can't hear it most of the time. All right, so thank you everybody. Thanks to everybody back here for coming out today. We're going to show you briefly. Each one is 30 seconds long, both English and Spanish, and then we'll make some folks available for one on ones. Thanks again.