Ice-related falls were minimal over the weekend in Emporia despite icy conditions during the weekend.
Pam Kvas, emergency room director at Newman Regional Health, said they started to see an increase in fall-related injuries on Thursday, but most of them were from indoor falls.
Kvas said she was surprised that there weren’t more ice-related falls over the weekend.
“They must have stayed inside,” she said.
Preventing falls during icy weather is important. Kvas offered a few tips.
“The elderly and the young should stay off the ice,” she said. “Other than that is getting the moisture off the sidewalk.”
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