Monday, February 6, 2012

February 6, 2012

“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
Clara Barton (1821-1912)

Carbon monoxide fumes send 3 children to hospital
Meriden Record-Journal
West Hartford authorities say three local children were rushed to the hospital after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide in their home. WFSB-TV reports that firefighters responded to the home on Forest Hills Drive ...

Chamber only one of its kind in state
Daily Mail 
Charleston - A Rhode Island construction worker received life-saving treatment after being exposed to carbon monoxide last week, thanks to St. Francis Hospital's hyperbaric chamber. Bain Edmundson, 49, of Barrington, RI, an employee of Rosciti Construction Group, ...

Carbon monoxide alarm saves local family
Bay Today
The alarm was their CO detector going off and they were not coming down with an illness they were feeling the full effects of carbon monoxide poison. “An alarm that I didn't recognize went off and so I kind of tapped Gary and said go turn that off ...

Carbon monoxide from generator inside house apparently killed Pineville mother ...
The Republic
Pineville police say carbon monoxide from a generator inside their house apparently killed a 55-year-old woman and her 17-year-old daughter. The Town Talk (http://townta.lk/y7NIAh) reports that they are identified as Emma Harper and her daughter, ...

Lauren Project reaching out to help others
The Coloradoan
Lauren Johnson was a 2004 Windsor High School graduate who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in her Denver apartment while studying at Denver University. After her death, The Lauren Project was founded to prevent carbon monoxide deaths in Lauren's ...

Carbon monoxide found at Bideford house
This is North Devon
Firefighters were called to a property in Bideford on Saturday following reports of a carbon monoxide leak. Fire crews from Bideford and a gas detector from Barnstaple attended the domestic terraced property in Brecon Close at around 2pm.