As warmer weather prompts families to open their windows, a Pierce County fire department and children’s hospital are teaming up to protect children.
PUYALLUP, Wash. — Courtney Thompson still remembers the phone call.
It was Memorial Day weekend 2023. She had just left her family’s home in Olympia when her sister-in-law called in a panic.
“She called and said, ‘Can you please come back? Madden fell and I don’t know if she’ll be okay,'” Thompson recalled.
Her 7-year-old niece, Madden Thompson, had fallen headfirst from a second-story window. She was rushed into surgery that night at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma,
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