Saturday, November 12, 2011

November 12, 2011

“Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.”
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Man Hospitalized After Smoking From Hookah
WLKY Louisville
"The surprising risk is carbon monoxide poisoning," said Henry Spiller with the Kentucky Poison Control Center. The Kentucky Regional Poison Control Center said elevated levels of carbon monoxide from smoking a hookah pipe caused the 20-year-old to ...

HISD: Barnett Stadium safe, but investigation ongoing into what sickened 22 ...
KHOU
Officials believe the elevated carbon monoxide levels may have been caused by the emergency vehicles' idling engines. Tests on at least two of the students who fell ill showed an elevated level of carbon monoxide in their blood streams. ...

Carbon monoxide scare evacuates Brooklyn apartment building ...
WABC-TV
NEW YORK -- Six people were overcome after carbon monoxide fumes filled a building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The victims, three ...

Point Reyes poisoning case underscores need to install carbon monoxide detectors
Marin Independent-Journal By Nels Johnson
A Point Reyes Station family of four was back home and feeling fine this week after a close call in which they were poisoned by deadly carbon monoxide fumes from a faulty heater. "The family is doing well," said Marin County Fire Chief ...