SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ten employees of a Sacramento radio station have been fired after a participant in a water-drinking contest died last week, a station official told KCRA 3 on Tuesday. Management at 107.9 The End earlier said the Morning Rave show had been taken off the air indefinitely.
The station would not name those who had lost their jobs over the contest, but issued the following statement:
"Effective immediately, the Morning Rave program is cancelled and 10 employees are no longer with the station," John Geary, Vice President Entercom Sacramento.
Jennifer Strange, 28, died Friday after she took part in a station competition in an effort to win a Nintendo Wii video game system.
Strange, a mother of three, did not win. But later that afternoon, she was found dead at her Rancho Cordova home. A preliminary report said she showed signs of water intoxication.
Contestants signed a waiver before taking part in the competition, but the winner of the game said participants were never alerted to the dangers.
A listener who said she is a nurse called the show and warned the deejays on air of the risks of the game.
Timothy O'Connor, a personal injury attorney, called the waiver "meaningless" and said the radio station still shares some responsibility.
"Waivers deal with the risk of an activity," O'Connor said. "Nobody drinks a glass of water and thinks, 'This can kill me'."
I know I would not have thought so....would you?
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I heard about this right after it happened- so sad. She was trying to win a wII for her kids.
on a separate note- the WM deal, wasn't really a WM deal. It was using the "try electrasol free" coupon. We didn't get it in our area this round- but I ordered it from a lady who had some extras.
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