 out of the water. I'm your lifeguard, Alicia Anderson, and welcome to the Fort Report. Say, do you know why elephants can swim wherever they want? Because they always have trunks with them. No? Well, how about this one? Where do ghosts like to swim? Lake Erie. No, again. OK. Well, I guess those jokes aren't very funny. Well, neither is water safety. So let's look at what you can do to help with drowning prevention. While you do that, I'm going to go see the new Baywatch movie. Sorry. Texas is number one in the nation for pool drownings. And that's not necessarily a statistic you want to be at the top of. Tarrant County specifically is third in the state for pool drownings as well. So we're trying to combat those numbers. Two seconds is too long. Two seconds is too long to leave a child in the water unsupervised when people are in the water. Someone, a water watcher, needs to be completely focused on what is happening in the pool. No phones, no iPads, no books to read. It's a lot easier to prevent a tragedy than deal with the tragedy after it's happened. Fort Worth Drowning Prevention Coalition offers swim safe programs. We get kids and adults in the water who don't know how to swim and teach them to be comfortable in the water so that they can self rescue. We also have a dry land education portion where we take parents and caregivers and have somebody teach them about CPR, about how to properly watch the water, the rules of being around water, how to use a life preserver, all the things that you can do that are simple in order to address the drowning prevention issue. Visit fwdpc.org for more information about swim safe programs and volunteer opportunities with Fort Worth Drowning Prevention Coalition. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings you can always check the calendar at the city's website.