Friday, February 3, 2012

February 3, 2012

“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?

4 Sickened By Carbon Monoxide In Swissvale
CBS Local
SWISSVALE (KDKA) — Four people including a pregnant woman and a child were treated at a hospital after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in a Swissvale apartment building which has been condemned. Swissvale Fire Chief Clyde Wilhelm says his ...

Carbon monoxide scare forces residents from home
Daily Local News By ERIC S. SMITH
COATESVILLE — Residents were forced from their home due to a carbon monoxide scare, the second such incident in the city in two weeks. On Wednesday afternoon, residents of a house in the 400 block of Maple Avenue stopped at the ...

Worker at lottery building hospitalized for carbon monoxide
Daily Mail
Charleston - A worker at the West Virginia Lottery Commission was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after high levels of carbon monoxide were found in his blood. Nikki Orcutt, deputy director of marketing for the West Virginia Lottery ...

Woman found dead in Cleethorpes after carbon monoxide leak
BBC News
A woman has been found dead in a flat in Cleethorpes after the fire service was called to a carbon monoxide (CO) leak. Fire crews were called to a house in Barcroft Street, Cleethorpes on Wednesday evening, after reports that a CO alarm was sounding.

Hotel official: Steps taken to prevent future monoxide leaks
Williston Daily Herald

A management official for the Airport International Inn in Williston said Wednesday that the hotel has taken steps to prevent any future carbon monoxide leaks. Charlott Guteirrez, president of Legacy Asset Management, which manages the Airport ...

Carbon monoxide victim showing signs of improvement
Daily Mail - Charleston
A man who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at a South Charleston Hotel was upgraded to stable condition on Thursday. Bain Edmunsen, 49, of Barrington, RI, previously was in critical condition at Charleston Area Medical Center's ...

Crewmen ready for carbon monoxide -- on job site, not at hotel
Charleston Gazette An official from a Rhode Island-based construction company said his crew received new carbon monoxide detectors before they came to West Virginia. The men thought they would need the detectors for their work underground -- not during their stay at a ...

Carbon monoxide detector rules to be examined
Daily Mail - Charleston by Paul Fallon
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is establishing a task force to look into regulations dealing with carbon monoxide detectors in buildings that are open to the public. A recent tragedy in South Charleston that left one man dead ...

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?