Friday, May 20, 2011

May 20, 2011

“I love to doubt as well as know.”
Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

FL Carbon Monoxide Forces Brevard Co. Dispatch Evacuation 
WFTV Orlando
At least 22 people were transported to the hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide at the Brevard County Sheriff's dispatch center, WFTV learned on Friday. The 22 sheriff's office employees were transported to Parrish Medical Center and ...
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FL Carbon monoxide prompts evacuation of Brevard Sheriff's complex in Titusville 
Florida Today

The Brevard County Sheriff's Office complex in Titusville was evacuated this morning after officials reported high levels of carbon monoxide. Several employees also reported feeling light-headed and were treated by paramedics, officials reported. ...

Workers taken to hospital for carbon-monoxide fumes 
York Daily Record
Several construction workers were taken to York Hospital Thursday afternoon after machinery began to fill an old building with carbon monoxide fumes, according to Capt. Strew Frey with West York Fire Department. Work was being done on an old bank ... 

Mother, 5 Kids Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 
WISN Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee mother and five children were taken to Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center Thursday morning for carbon monoxide poisoning. The Milwaukee Fire Department told 12 News the carbon monoxide level in the home at 29th Street and Villard ...

More than a dozen blueberry workers treated for carbon monoxide 
WECT-TV6
BLADEN COUNTY, NC – More than a dozen people from a blueberry processing center were taken to the hospital Thursday to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. According to Bladen County Emergency Management Director Bradley Kinlaw, ...

Teenage Fire Victim Succumbs To Injuries 
WFMZ Allentown
Tyshawn Lawrence, 16, of 815 North 5th Street in Allentown, died this afternoon from complications of carbon monoxide poisoning, Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said. A fire broke out in Lawrence's home on May 6th just before 9:00am. ...

Woodbury Family Thanks Legislators, Community For Support of Tyler's Law
Patch.com By lavers
Our family is filled with gratitude to all those who have honored our Tyler by offering their time and efforts to save others through carbon monoxide awareness.

Radford arsenal fined for excessive carbon monoxide emissions 
Roanoke Times By Laurence Hammack
The Radford Army Ammunition Plant has been fined $20000 for releasing excessive carbon monoxide from one of its smokestacks -- the plant's eighth violation of state environmental regulations in as many years. ...

SD Ice Rink Follow Up
Skaters say Symptoms may be Carbon Monoxide Related 
KDLT News
After last Monday's incident when four hockey players were sent to the hospital because of high carbon monoxide levels, some who've experienced symptoms at the rink are now considering the possibility that their symptoms may be linked to high carbon ...

SD Ice Rink Follow Up
 Need For New Ice Arena Greater Than Ever
KELOLAND TV By Don Jorgensen
The carbon monoxide poisoning at the Minnehaha County Ice and Recreation Center this week is just one of a handful of reasons hockey players and figure skaters in Sioux Falls say they need a new facility. They say the 30 year old Minnehaha ... (Should we wonder why they would wait to buy a new electric Zamboni until they build their new facility?)