Monday, January 9, 2012

January 9, 2011

“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.” Michel de Montaigne (1553-1592)

Pain, loss and injury are motivators
Smoke detector sales up in Greenwich after Stamford blaze
Ct Post
A display of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors at Feinsod Hardware includes a poster  that advertises smoke and carbon monoxide detectors   ...

Family Evacuated For High Levels Of Carbon Monoxide
WCVB-TV
High levels of carbon monoxide forced a Brookline family from their home Sunday afternoon. Fire officials received a call at about 4 pm for high readings of carbon monoxide at the home on Cutler Lane. A mother and son who live at the home were taken to ...

Carbon monoxide leak at Kings Point academy
Newsday By EMILY NGO
At least 38 people were taken from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point to area hospitals for evaluation late Sunday night after carbon monoxide was discovered leaking from a water heater...

Family survives carbon monoxide fumes
KPCnews.com
LIGONIER — A West Noble High School teacher and his wife are hoping that others can learn a valuable lesson following a carbon monoxide incident at their home last week. Monte and Jenny Mawhorter of rural ...

Experts warn of carbon monoxide leaks
Lawrence Journal World
In the past few years, Coffman, owner of Airtight Energy Audits, has visited between 25 to 30 homes that have had high levels of carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas produced by incomplete burning of fuels. And, he has seen at least 10 homes ...

Follow up
Chester landlord pleads guilty to endangerment
Delaware County Daily Times
Jeffrey Bobb, 43, of Cherry Hill, NJ, was arrested in January 2010 after a tenant in his property on the 1100 block of Madison Street had to be evacuated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Chester Fire ...