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Playing at the beach can feel like the world’s biggest sand box to a wide-eyed kid.
Dressed in bright bathing suits and covered in a dusting of sand, kids can often be seen lugging sloshing buckets of water back to the trenches they recently dug. The grins that stretch across their faces reflect the joy that digging in the sand can bring.
But as families prepare for summer vacations at the Delaware beaches, beach patrols and resort towns want people to remember that digging deep holes – and not filling them in – can be a serious and even deadly safety concern.