Safe Kids Greater Des Moines to host gas can exchange
Blank Children’s Hospital, Metro Waste Authority and Safe Kids Greater Des Moines will host the second annual Christopher Allsup Gas Can Exchange on June 6 from 8 a.m. to noon at Metro Waste Hazardous Dropoff center in Bondurant. Residents can exchange their old, potentially unsafe gas container for a new metal safety container that is fitted with a spark arrestor. Christopher Allsup of Winterset, died in September 2013 at the age of 10 after being severely burned when a plastic gasoline container exploded, showering him with burning gasoline. For more information, click here.