Monday, January 19, 2015

Carbon Monoxide News January 19, 2015 - posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.
We can learn from others mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning.


“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” Herman Melville (1819-1891, bio link)

Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY MEETING
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Featured News Links – More news links below
Dozens of people slightly poisoned in Košice-Čaňa ice stadium
The Slovak Spectator
When firemen arrived after 19:00, they found that carbon monoxide was leaking, an officer of the dispatching centre of Košice fire-brigade, Roman ...

Six Treated for Carbon Monoxide after Incident at Bismarck Hotel
WDAZ
Bismarck, ND (KX News) - Four children and two adults were treated after high levels of carbon monoxide were found in the pool area of the Holiday Inn Express...

Update
Officials: 6 sent to hospital with CO poisoning
News 12 Connecticut
Officials say a boiler malfunctioned, causing carbon monoxide to fill the home located at 35 Woodward Ave. at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday…

SALEM FIRE DEPARTMENT
SalemNews.net
Firefighters found a high reading of carbon monoxide inside a residence on West Ninth Street after being called to the scene at 10:08 a.m. Friday.

Carbon monoxide poisoning—could your pet be at risk?
Pet Meds News
This is a good time of year to become aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning in both pets and people…
More news links below -

We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others
The following link takes you to a site with views from those who have been poisoned. The seriousness of carbon monoxide poisoning, the grief, suffering and disorientations experienced are clearly portrayed with the intent to help others and prevent future poisonings. With respect, please visit: 

What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning. 

We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.

Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.

Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.

You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.

Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.

Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn.
GET BUSY

Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety 

CO and Air Quality News Links
Parliamentary report urges 'behaviour change' approach to tackling carbon monoxide poisoning
H&V News
A report launching in Parliament today (19 January) warns that those involved in promoting carbon monoxide safety must change their approach if the ...

Carbon Monoxide detector give away in Lockport
WKBW-TV
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WKBW) - Dozens of carbon monoxide detectors were given away, Sunday, as part of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Awareness ...

CO poisoning hospitalizes dozens of students in Kerman
Tehran Times
On the same day, IRNA gave a report of another case of carbon monoxide poisoning that included 12 people in a five-floor building on Azarbayjan ...

Vehicle emissions first to blame for air pollution
The Coloradoan
Fort Collins' overall visibility is worse than state guidelines about every one in four days, according to the 2013 Fort Collins Air Quality Report…

Eastern province links officials' promotion with air quality
GlobalPost
17 (Xinhua) -- The government of east China's Zhejiang Province has decided to tackle its air pollution in a unique way: by connecting it to officials' job ...

Midwife Shunned In Utah Oil Town After Questioning Big Oil's Part In High Stillbirth Rate
The Inquisitr
Air quality and pollution are known issues in Uintah Basin area, which includes Vernal. In fact, several advocacy groups have raised questions about ...

Breathing in steel
Independent
According to chemical production studies, production of steel results in creation of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide ...

Who is responsible for the air you breathe? 
Take control inside your homes. 
-Link to:  CO alarm standards  

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. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety 

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

These following links may be of some use to you: 

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

National Conference of State Legislatures 
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes 

Twenty-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | MassachusettsMichigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | 
  
Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.

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 

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