Tuesday, March 15, 2011

March 15, 2011

“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)

Fire department to get carbon monoxide monitors
The Tennessean
Battalion Chief Greg Baltimore demonstrates the Franklin Fire Department's CO-oximeter, a tool that measures a person's carbon monoxide exposure with a sensor that clips to their finger. The department will soon get six additional sensors. ...

Lake County General Health District warns of carbon monoxide poisoning risks
News-Herald.com
By John Arthur Hutchison The Lake County General Health District is reminding people to protect themselves from carbon monoxide poisoning. Cold weather and windy conditions may prompt the use of alternative heating and power sources, so officials want ...

Follow up A hotel in West Seneca has been evacuated after carbon monoxide was ...
WGRZ-TV
A West Seneca code enforcement official says there are no carbon monoxide detectors in the Hampton Inn on Ridge Road. Nine people staying at the Hampton Inn were hospitalized, and all were treated and released. It was an incident that some say could ...

Fifty Mount Vernon Terrace residents were temporarily displaced Sunday
Waynesboro Record Herald
“We had a reading of a high level of carbon monoxide when we entered the basement. We backed out quick and checked the units.” Martin said the residents of the first unit were immediately evacuated because the apartment was showing a CO reading. ...