Thursday, December 30, 2010

December 30, 2010

“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” Tom Robbins (1936-

Contractor, home inspectors indicted in carbon-monoxide deaths of ...
Denverpost.com
A contractor and a building inspector have been indicted on homicide charges in connection with shoddy…

8 people evacuated from Pigtown home over carbon monoxide
Baltimore Sun By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun
Eight people were taken to area hospitals for evaluation for possible carbon monoxide exposure at a Pigtown rowhome, ...

Manitoba makes carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in new residences
Vancouver Sun
According to the province, which originally told media outlets that carbon-monoxide sensors would be required in all homes next year, the devices are only ...

Hospital warns about heaters, carbon monoxideý
San Antonio Express
With winter here, Nix Health is reminding the community about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning that can be caused by faulty heaters or from using ...

Three in hospital following carbon monoxide leak
WalesOnline
A RETIRED couple and a paramedic were taken to hospital after being overcome by carbon monoxide. Jon Wills and his wife Valerie, of High Street, Laleston, ...

Carbon monoxide leak shuts Freeport plant - A Follow-up story
Newsday By BEN WIEDER lidesk@newsday.com
A day after a carbon monoxide leak at a Freeport packaging plant sent the owner and 27 workers to multiple hospitals, ...

Clogged pipe to blame for carbon monoxide in Waynesboro home
Chambersburg Public Opinion
A clogged pipe was to blame for carbon monoxide found in a Waynesboro home. Waynesboro Fire Department was called to a home at 304 S. Church St. ...

CO poisoning suspected in double fatality
WANE HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) –
Carbon Monoxide poisoning may have killed two men found dead inside a box truck in Huntington on Wednesday. ...

Wis. Trooper saves family from carbon monoxide poisoning
WQOW TV News 18
... children and two adult women were saved from carbon monoxide poisoning after going into the ditch on I-94 in Jackson County the day after Christmas. ...

Real Estate Wonk: Don't let your home poison you
Baltimore Sun
Here's a heartfelt plea in light of the recent spate of carbon monoxide deaths: Don't become the next statistic. CO can kill when appliances that burn fuel ...