Thursday, August 18, 2011

August 18, 2011

“With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.”  Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Couple sues Hood Realty for carbon monoxide poisoning
West Virginia Record

HUNTINGTON -- A couple is suing Hood Realty Co. after they were exposed to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide from a defective water heater leaking carbon monoxide. On Aug. 15, 2008, Katherine L. Mohn and Michael D. Lowe executed and entered an ...

Carbon monoxide at downtown building diverts traffic
The Tennessean
Assistant Nashville Fire Chief Mike Franklin has confirmed elevated levels of carbon monoxide on the second floor of the Hughes & Coleman building, which has been evacuated. "Initial readings are 500 parts per million on the second floor," said ... COSA NOTES that the assistant fire chief states that normal CO alarms begin alarming a 35 PPM of CO. If he is talking about U.L. 2034 Listed CO alarms he is incorrect. Please read the packaging. The units have been tested to alarm at 70, 150 and 400 PPM of carbon monoxide when those concentrations have been present for specific periods of time and not sooner. 

PREVIOUSLY INCORRECTLY REPORTED AS MACY’S
Carbon monoxide sickens 4 people at Staten Island Mall
SILive.com
High levels of carbon monoxide were detected Tuesday afternoon, a fire department spokesman said. Four people were rushed to Staten Island University Hospital, the spokesman said. Their conditions were not life-threatening. The basement area near the ...