MILTON, Mass. — Milton Police reminded residents on Friday about the dangers of leaving a refrigerator outside unattended.
Last week, an officer responded to a home under renovation for a report of a refrigerator left outside with the doors still attached. Police said they field similar calls, “often enough.”
“A child may be tempted to climb inside a container such as this and close the door,” police said. “These are unable to be opened from the inside and present a very real danger of suffocation.”
In the most recent case, firefighters were called and removed the doors from the refrigerator.
Massachusetts law states:
Whoever fails to remove the door or doors from a container originally used for refrigerative purposes before discarding it, or setting it aside for failure to use such container, or before keeping it out of doors for sale or any other purpose in a place accessible to unattended children, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
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