Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News January 9, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day

Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
Helen Keller (1880-1963, bio link)

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Woman dead after possible carbon monoxide poisoning
7Online WSVN-TV
MIAMI (WSVN) -- An elderly woman has been found dead inside her apartment complex, and police believe carbon monoxide poisoning is to blame. Police are on the scene after the woman was found dead inside an apartment complex in the area of 20327 ...

Greenburgh carbon monoxide leak sends 5 to hospital
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Greenburgh carbon monoxide sickens a dozen: About a dozen residents at 90 Manhattan Ave. in Greenburgh's Fairview section became lightheaded Jan. 9, 2013, after a ventilator problem spewed carbon monoxide through the seven-story apartment ...

BBC News Strabane pensioner has carbon monoxide poisoning scare
bbc.co.uk
A woman in her 60s is recovering after she was poisoned by carbon monoxide in her home in Strabane.

Chasing the CO ghost – puzzling, costly & raises anxiety 
Munson Senior Center's carbon monoxide problems puzzling to Las Cruces ...
Las Cruces Sun-News

Munson Center patrons and volunteers, Jim Frederick, left, and John Ennis, center, talk with Munson Center instructor Tom Stramiello on Tuesday about the frequent closings of the center due to carbon monoxide. "We had a six-week class that was ...

Follow up – gas fireplace logs misaligned
Carbon monoxide causes alarm at care home
jacksonprogress-argus

Three residents of the lower floor of the Covington Care Home on Covington Street in Jackson were briefly evacuated Friday afternoon after a carbon monoxide buildup, fire officials said. The street was blocked for about a half hour as crews looked into ...

Follow up
One alarm saves many, leads to furnace replacements in apartment complex

Carbon Monoxide Leak in Salem Sends Eight to the Hospital
WSET

Salem, VA - More than a dozen people in Salem were still out of their homes as of Tuesday night, after a carbon monoxide leak at their apartment complex sent eight people to the hospital. Fortunately, one of those families had a working carbon monoxide ...

Bad air quality worsens breathing problems
Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY — Logan, Provo and Salt Lake have some of the worst air quality in the country, according to Utah's Department of Environmental Quality. At one point Tuesday, pollution levels in the Salt Lake valley were worse than in Beijing, a city ...

UL Listed Carbon Monoxide Alarms Will Not Alert You to Low Levels of CO
Minneapolis Star Tribune
I report a problem with a gas appliance, saying there is exhaust gas leaking in to the house, and I say it needs to be fixed because it's a safety hazard; exhaust gas contains carbon monoxide. The next day I get an accusatory call from the seller or ...

The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
70 PPM to 149 PPM –
resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions.


Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce

SAINT PAUL, MN – Each year about 50,000 people visit emergency rooms in the United States for CO poisoning, and more than 500 die each year from this silent, odorless, colorless gas. As part of Winter Hazard Awareness Week (November 5-9), the Minnesota Department of Commerce warns Minnesotans of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to take steps to avoid this “silent killer.”

Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com

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Carbon monoxide toxicity
Emergency Medicine Ireland
- By Andy Neill

Aviators – note:
(PDF)
Federal Aviation Administration warning; Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace

Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2

· Heart rescue video using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.

· Carbon Monoxide Survivor
A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.

Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.

National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes

Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia

Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.

American Red Cross - disaster relief

The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International