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Your Phone Lit Up With the Headline. Here Is What Comes Next. Your phone lit up with the headline. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is giving away 283 lifejackets this Saturday at Skaggs Bridge Park, Lost Lake, Avocado Lake, and Laton-Kingston Park. If you are a Central Valley parent — or an aunt, uncle, grandparent, or older sibling who watches the kids when the river calls — you read past the headline to what was underneath it. Earlier this month, a toddler nearly drowned at Millerton Lake and was pulled from the water by family members before first responders arrived. In Tulare County, deputies pulled a 9-year-old girl out of Lake Kaweah. Nearly half of all California drowning deaths happen between now and August. And drowning is still the leading cause of injury-related death in children under five. The lifejackets are a good thing. We are grateful the Sheriff's Office is doing this for a third straight year. But here is what the news did not tell you, and what every Fresno County family needs to understand right now — not after a drowning, but before one. Because if a child drowns or suffers brain damage at one of these…