Thursday, February 28, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News February 28, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day. Scroll back in time and balance the carbon monoxide stories with the lessons learned.

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

“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.” Giambattista Vico (1668-1744, bio link)

The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief

CO News Links –
Carbon monoxide leaves 4 family members ill
Capecodonline

In any carbon monoxide situation, people are taken to the hospital if they exhibit symptoms of poisoning or if rescuers suspect it, Burke said. Rescuers have some "field diagnostics" they can use, but only hospital tests can definitively determine ...

Carbon Monoxide Fumes Condemn Berwick Apartments
WNEP By Peggy Lee
BERWICK -- A mother and her three children were hospitalized in Columbia County after succumbing to carbon monoxide fumes inside their Berwick apartment. A total of 15 people were forced out of that apartment building after fire crews ...

Relatives of KCK carbon monoxide victims hope others learn from tragedy
Kansas City Star

And on Tuesday in Kansas City, Kan., carbon monoxide apparently took the lives of a Kansas City, Kan., woman and her brother. “Deadly,” Deputy Fire Chief Craig Duke said of the gas level measured by firefighters when they arrived at the home in the ...

Mass. family escapes carbon monoxide scare
NECN

"I was about to call the pediatrician when they started screaming off the carbon monoxide detectors," she said. Halesworth called the fire department, and first responders say as soon as they opened they door they got very high CO readings. "We ...

Carbon monoxide death prompts stricter regulations
KTVB

MERIDIAN -- A young Marine's death, caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, is prompting change for the city of Meridian. City officials are proposing stricter regulations for new buildings in an effort to prevent another tragedy. The ordinance involves ...

State fire marshal urges fire & carbon monoxide alarm safety
Fox 28

An indication of abnormal levels of carbon monoxide in the home may be nausea or a headache in the forehead area that gets better or goes away when you or a family member are at work or school, but then returns after hours of being back in the home.

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.


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

Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:

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-seven 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

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

Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.

A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.

What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News February 27, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day. Scroll back in time and balance the carbon monoxide stories with the lessons learned.

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

“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
Emile Zola (1840-1902, bio link)

The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief

CO News Links –
Siblings found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning
KCTV Kansas City

A pair of siblings were found dead in a home from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday. It looks like they died because of a generator turned on indoors after their power went out. Craig Duke, deputy chief at the Kansas City, KS, Fire Department, ...

Carbon monoxide victims meet with Student Affairs
University at Buffalo The Spectrum

Freshmen roommates Neil Campbell, Bennett Sciacca and Tijo Mathew – who were poisoned with carbon monoxide in their Richmond Quad dorm last week – met with a Student Affairs official on Friday and Monday. Colleen Connolly, a Student Affairs student ...

Police: VT Teen Died Within Minutes From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Fox44abc22yourvoice

A problem that police say created a deadly scenario as carbon monoxide came through vents as Logan Newell sat idle in the parking lot. "We were able to determine that within 7 to 9 minutes there would have been 1800 per million parts CO in the vehicle ...

68 suffer carbon monoxide poisoning at fruit and veg plant
thenews.pl

Sixty eight workers at a fruit and vegetable processing plant in Kwidzyn, northern Poland, have been taken to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. The workers were hospitalised after complaining of headaches and nausea, with one in what ...

Air quality alert issued for Twin Cities, Rochester
KARE

ST. PAUL, Minn. - An air pollution health alert has been issued Tuesday for residents of the Twin Cities and Rochester. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) issued the alert after fine particle pollution in the Twin Cities and Rochester ...

Finnish air pollution shortens life
YLE News
Given the right atmospheric conditions, a steady stream of air pollution reaches southern Finland from the European continent. In Beijing, the air contains hundreds of micrograms of polluting particles. In Finland, that figure is less than ten, but ...

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.

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

Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:

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-seven 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

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

Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.

A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.

What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News February 26, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day. Scroll back in time and balance the carbon monoxide stories with the lessons learned.

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

“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”
Steve Prefontaine (1951-1975, bio, timeless stuff)

The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief

Carbon monoxide is known to have many generating sources. Often times these generating sources operate or are installed in ways and places that are inherently harmful to people. People also make mistakes while using many of these systems. When a poisoning occurs, we search for the source. There are times when we think we have discovered the source of a poisoning, only to have it strike again in the same locations. Like a phantom or the myth of a promise, carbon monoxide is suspicious in its absence. This ghost can be measured and be de-mythed.

There is an expression, “If you play with fire, expect to get burned.” With the number of fires we encounter everyday throughout our lives, we can expect to breathe in carbon monoxide during episodes of exposure, when you may least or never have expected it. From the homes we were brought into the world, the vehicles we encounter, the buildings we enter and throughout our lives, fire will be there and so will its evil breathe. Often, carbon monoxide will be silently penetrating, maybe just teasing us with mild but irritating disruptions until we succumb to the next threat level of oxidative stress.

Carbon monoxide poisoning prevention requires source reduction through vigilant set up and servicing of the equipment that has foreseeable abilities to generate the poison. Combustion equipment used for heating of air and water and for cooking should be verified they are installed to manufacturer specifications and with regard to best practices and code requirements. Installing equipment without verification seems negligent and a poor business practice.


Carbon monoxide poisoning prevention also requires personal protection at home and away from home. How well you want to be protected or how well you want to protect those you are responsible for as a landlord, spouse, parent or provider surely depends upon how aware you are of carbon monoxide threats that can impact all people of variable health conditions. There have been news reports urging people to get protection with a carbon monoxide alarm that can cost as little as $20.00. This will work for you if you have a $20.00 family, or a $20.00 law. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

CO News Links –
Union City tenants forced out of homes due to high carbon monoxide levels -- again!
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com

UNION CITY – For the second time within six days, 12 people in a Union City apartment building were forced to leave their home Friday night due to high levels of carbon monoxide. The same tenants had been forced out of their homes Sunday, Feb. 17 for ...

Antioch family overcome by carbon monoxide poisoning
Lake County News-Sun

A boyfriend is being credited with helping save his girlfriend and her family, including their dog, early Monday morning in Antioch after they were all overcome from carbon monoxide poisoning. The father, mother and 22-year-old daughter were expected ...

State fire marshal warns of carbon monoxide dangers
Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND — Maryland State Fire Marshal William Barnard wants to encourage Marylanders to be mindful of the dangers of carbon monoxide. The colorless, tasteless and potentially toxic gas is produced by the incomplete combustion of liquid fuels, ...

2 broken exhaust fans blamed for south Fort Myers lodge carbon monoxide leak
The News-Press
The South Trail Fire Department responded to the scene of a carbon monoxide call at Crestwood Suites Extended Lodging on Monday 2/25/2013.

Carbon Monoxide in French Creek Home Sends 3 People to Hospitals
WBOY-TV
Responders determined that there were high levels of carbon monoxide coming from the home. Two people were transported to St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon and one person was flown by HealthNet to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.

SB 372 would revise carbon monoxide detector laws
Beartooth NBC

The Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee heard testimony today on a bill that would revise tenant laws regarding carbon monoxide detectors. Bill sponsor Senator Scott Boulanger of Darby says the bill states how many detectors landlords ...

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.


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

Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:

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-seven 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

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

Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.

A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.

What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Monday, February 25, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News February 25, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day. Scroll back in time and balance the carbon monoxide stories with the lessons learned.

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

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.” Plato (bio link)

The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief

CO News Links –
Boy alerts firefighters to family overcome by carbon monoxide
Chicago Tribune

Antioch fire officials are crediting a quick-thinking boy for alerting them in time to a family of four found unconscious in their home from carbon monoxide poisoning this morning. The boy had gone to the home in the 1100 block of Bowles Road where his ...

Carbon monoxide forces evacuations at Merriam motel
KMBC Kansas City

Photos. A carbon monoxide problem forced guests to evacuate a Merriam motel early Sunday, police said. Related. Winter storm watch goes into effect... Kan. officials urge residents to... KCPD: Teen struck by car on city's... Wreck slows traffic on I-35 ...

Area students assist Loveland Fire Rescue Aurthority alarm distribution
ReporterHerald.com

More than 100 volunteers from local high schools helped the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority canvass hundreds of homes on Saturday to spread the word about smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. And that was just the start of the large-scale community ...

Family's lucky escape after carbon monoxide gas leak
This is Somerset

A mother has told how her young son fell sick from carbon monoxide poisoning hours after another West Country family of three was found dead – with the deadly gas the suspected killer. Julie Beale, of Wellington, Somerset, told how her husband, Graham, ...

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.


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

Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:

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-seven 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

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

Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.

A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.

What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News February 24, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day. Scroll back in time and balance the carbon monoxide stories with the lessons learned.

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

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788, bio link)

Small fires burning in a relatively small but occupiable enclosed space require oxygen from the air to combust. As the fire consumes the oxygen from the air at a demanding rate beyond the “made up” or replaced air entering back into the space, the generation of carbon monoxide accelerates as a result of incomplete combustion.

A small but occupiable space may describe shelters from the size of small camping tents, caravans, motor homes, camping trailers, ice fishing shelters, small apartments, inside automobiles and trucks. Small fires can be as small as a gas camp stove or lantern and include gas, oil, coal, bagasse, or wood heaters or cooking systems. That small fire may be somewhere in an appliance and you may not even know it is there, like in a gas refrigerator found in your vacation vehicle, trailer or remote cabin.

Small is also a relative word; relative that is to the size of the fire, the amount of air available for the fire with people in the size of the space, and, perhaps the number of fires occurring within that space. Large homes and buildings may have many fires occurring within it simultaneously for various lengths of time.


In that North American neighborhood, a person may get up on a winter morning and first engage the gas furnace to begin heating by turning the overnight setting to a warmer temperature, starting fire # 1. They then head to the kitchen and turn on the gas baking oven to pre-heat it for baking bread and start one stove top burner for the kettle. While these routines were conducted, another person in the home stepped into a hot shower, that eventually causes the water heater to ignite. We have successfully witnessed the start of 4 fires and we haven’t started the gas clothes dryer yet, lit the decorative fireplace or opened the garage door so we could warm the car up before leaving for the day, adding three more.

These fires need air. Some or all of these systems may have a small pilot light or two or three that are always burning at the ready, inside our homes or shelters. Some of these systems may be producing harmful levels of carbon monoxide when they operate. Make sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm wherever you may be exposed to it, including small spaces.


And please do not warm your vehicles up inside your attached or enclosed garages. If you measured the air inside that space while you were doing it, you could see for yourself how hazardous and dangerous that is. The car may be warm for the infant now, but without a doubt, harmful, very harmful. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief

CO News Links –
Cornwall caravan park deaths: warnings on carbon monoxide poisoning risks
Telegraph.co.uk

Poisoning by carbon monoxide is currently the suspected cause. The static home is situated in a row of similar static homes on the site and has a small garden and porch leading to the main building which has a red slated roof. Today the curtains at the ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention
VOCM

As the snow builds up around outside vents, the chances of carbon monoxide building up inside your home increases. VOCM's Ariana Kelland has some tips on how to prevent that from the St. John's Regional Fire Department. The "silent killer," as it's ...

Four in hospital after Wellington carbon monoxide poisoning
This is Somerset

One person was vomiting when they arrived and firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a gas detection monitor to find extreme high levels of carbon monoxide inside the building. Ambulance crews treated the four occupants and took them to hospital.

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.


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

Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:

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-seven 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

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

Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.

A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.

What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety