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Tulare Co. considers adding 17 drop-off sites for infants
Fire stations would be safe, legal places to accept unwanted babies.
By Tim Bragg / The Fresno Bee
12/19/06
VISALIA - Tulare County supervisors will consider a plan today to
raise the number of places where people can safely surrender unwanted
newborns from three to 20 by designating county fire stations as safe
surrender sites.
The designation comes on the heels of the discovery in Orosi of a dead
baby outside a home, the third child abandonment in that particular
neighborhood in the past three years.
The Board of Supervisors will review the plan from the Fire Department
to make 17 of its stations - in Kingsburg, Cutler, Goshen, Ivanhoe,
Three Rivers, Lindsay, Strathmore, Porterville, Doyle Colony, Terra
Bella, Springville, Tulare, Tipton, Pixley, Earlimart, Alpaugh and
Richgrove - official Safe Baby Surrender Sites.