Baby Crib Recalls

About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled after three children had gotten trapped in their cribs and died of suffocation. The three children were 6-months old, 9-months old, and 1-year old.
In all of the deaths, the buyer had installed the drop-rail side of the crib upside down. This causes a gap in the crib that children can slide into and suffocate. There have been 55 reports of the crib’s drip side detaching or the hardware not holding the side to the crib. All of the cribs were made in China.
Back in June, about 40,000 Nursery-in-a-Box cribs, manufactured by Simplicity, were recalled because the assembly instructions didn’t explain correctly how to attach the drop side. The current recall involves mainly the Simplicity and Graco cribs made from January 1998 to May 2007. The recall involves many models and model numbers.
A person that owns one of these cribs should make sure that the drop side is installed right side up and is securely attached. The newer models have a flexible tab at the top of the lower track and a permanent stop at the bottom. The older models had a flexible tab at the bottom of the lower tracks.
The models that are recalled include: Aspen 3 in 1, Aspen 4 in 1, Nursery-in-a-Box, Crib N Changer, Combo, Chelsea, Pooh 4 in 1, Ultra 4 in 1, and Ultra 5 in 1. Simplicity is offering free repairs for cribs with older hardware.

Drunk Man Trapped in Ex’s Chimney

In Evansville, Indiana firefighters had to tear through a wall and rescue a drunken man who had gotten stuck while trying to climb down a chimney to get into the home of his ex-girlfriend.

Alejandro Valencio was drunk when he got into the chimney at 3:30 a.m. in the morning. The firefighters needed help from the police because his ex-girlfriend, Connie Deweese, blocked the fireplace and wanted them to leave him in there and let him die. Deweese had known Valencio for eight months and wanted him to stay away from her. She had locked her doors but he decided that he would get in the house through the chimney. Valencio says he has a job and would pay for the damages he caused due to the rescue.