New Standards for Window Guards To Help Protect Children From Falls
Press Release # 00-126
Transcript
There is minimal audio for this video clip. The picture sequence is as follows:
- CPSC's Chairman Ann Brown saying: "Whether you live in a high-rise or single-family home, you can protect your child from falls with these new window guards, don't depend on the screen to keep children safe. This new standard ensures that window guards, both protect children from falls, but still allow your family to escape if there's a fire."
- Screen reading: "Window Guards."
- View of window guard (unopened package).
- View of window guard without the package.
- Screen reading: "B-roll of children and windows with no protection."
- Open window without guard.
- Far view of upper window without guard.
- The side of a window facing outdoors.
- Child walking over to a closed window without guard.
- Child looking out the closed window without the guard.
- Far view of top window.
- View of house.
- Close-up view of window without guard.
- Far view of tall building.
- Close-up of building.
- Child getting up on a chair to look out a closed window without a guard.
- Back view of child on chair looking out window.
- Close-up view of child looking out the window.
- Side view of child looking out the window.
- Fall view of tall building.
- Screen reading: "B-roll demonstration of doll falling out of an unprotected window."
- Doll falling out of an unprotected window.
- Doll falling out of an unprotected window.
- Screen reading: "B-roll of window guard installation."
- Open window with guard.
- Man putting guard in open window.
- Man screwing the guard in place.
- Man checking window guard to make sure it is secure.
- Screen reading: "B-roll of window guard being released in the event of a fire."
- Close-up of window guard.
- Window guard being released.
- Window guard being taken off a window.
- Window guard being taken off another window.
- Screen reading: "B-roll of children playing near a protected window."
- Two children playing near a protected window.
- Close-up of one child.
- Close-up of the other child.
- Close-up of window with guard.
- Two children playing.
- Two children looking out of a protected window.
- Far view of children looking out of a protected window.
- View of the house.
- Screen reading: "Consumers can also purchase window stops which can be added to the window frame to prevent the window from opening more than 4 inches."
- Three different packages of window stops.
- Screen reading: "Window guards will be available later this summer at hardware stores or directly from Automatic Specialties, (800) 445-2370; John Sterling Corporation, (800) 367-5726; LL Building Products, (800) 755-9392."
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