Be careful with your choice of words; "electrocution" means death by electric shock. Fortunately, although without question unfortunate and newsworthy, it sounds as if these boys just received a pretty hefty shock. Hope they recover soon.

Deanna was electrocuted in 2006 while warming up during a softball game at a park in the Druid Hill section of Baltimore. She was 14.
My wife and I have since dedicated our lives to battling the problem of contact voltage, a condition where a power system feeds electricity to a surface that can be contacted by the general public. In older metropolitan areas such as Baltimore, aging underground and aboveground electrical distribution equipment is often concentrated in public areas, including parks and streets. Deanna, for instance, was. Electrocuted when she touched a fence in the park where she was playing softball.
We backed a bill that passed in Maryland in October 2011. Dubbed the Deanna C. Green Rule, it mandates that assets around recreation parks and facilities have to be tested for contact voltage.
We are now pushing for a more stringent law that requires annual testing or mobile surveying for contact voltage throughout the City of Baltimore and the state of Maryland.

“What we want is for the powers to be to work with us, and not just put a band-aid over a bullet hole,” What we add is this problem is particularly dangerous because people cannot see it. www.deannaslyric.org

The article indicates a public trail, a line that was able to deliver a shock, and a child injured.

Was the line down? Was BGE called or responsible? Was the Deanna rule broken?

Are rec. locales okay in SP?

To who ever Thanks may be.
What do you want to know, this is a very political subject, if you want to know the truth I can lead you there. I have nothing to hide BG&E knows who we are, they hate us. It not what you can see it what you can’t that tells this story. Please don’t be like the rest do your homework on contact voltage. Call me 443 985 9039

Thanks

10:16 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Sir, I'm very sorry for your loss and admire your brave activism since then.
I meant no disrespect for your hard work and because you have done so much to save other children, I posed the question, poorly I see, to ask the Patch to get/give more information about this very recent incident:
that is, was a line down? did the line, which the Severna Park boys had access to, break any rules that were in place, and has it been fixed since?
Thank you, Mr. Green, for all you have done.

No, I did not take it out of contexts I do not believe that it has violated, any of the rules that are in place. It is just that there are so many problems underground that the citizens of Maryland are not aware. Our law is in place to have mobile surveying done to find any leakage, to the underground distribution, one time a year at (CVRZ) Contact Voltages Risk Zones in heavy populated areas where the utilities companies present their plans. By Maryland Law the utilities companies, must do two surveys twice a year at all recreational facility. The problem that took place in with the two boys was above ground where wires are visible. I believe that what BG&E is doing is great and the education to all youth will serve a great purpose but it does not address the full problems that can accrue underground when one may come in contact with surface that can become energize. Thank you

What ever happen with this story