Saturday, July 11, 2015

Carbon Monoxide News July 11, 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.
Carbon monoxide safety, we are all in this together.


Earthquake in Nepal: Children Need Your Help Now
Nearly 1 million children require humanitarian assistance, and UNICEF is on the ground working to provide critical aid to children and families.

“Just remember there’s a lot of bad, and beware.”
"Wild World" Cat Stevens - music link, live

Featured News Links – More news links below
20 kids hospitalized in Oshawa after carbon monoxide leak at gallery
CBC.ca
About 20 kids are being treated at a hospital Oshawa following a carbon monoxide gas leak in the Robert McLaughlin Gallery…

Scout shares message of carbon monoxide safety
St. George Daily Spectrum
Last year, one of his mother's cousins died in a carbon monoxide poisoning incident along with all of the other family members at home…

'Devoted, loving' Ashburton mother, and children who died of carbon monoxide poisoning farewelled
TVNZ
The funeral for the Cook Islands mother and her three children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was accidentally left running…

Memorial dedicated for Carbon Monoxide victims
WKEF ABC 22
Troy fire investigators had blamed the accident on a faulty furnace, blocked chimney, and no carbon monoxide detector,…

Report reveals factors of Baltimore firefighter's death
WBAL Baltimore
"A high carbon monoxide level and soot in the deepest part of his lungs, he probably survived in that environment for 15 to 30 minutes,"…
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
Underground fire in Old City extinguished
PhillyVoice.com
Carbon monoxide detectors are going off in the area, but fire officials say they are working to bring carbon monoxide levels down…The fire was said to be the result of an underground transformer explosion…

Daleville chief offers summer safety tips
The Southeast Sun
Also, summer is a time when everyone likes to grill, and again safety is a concern. Remember when grilling to position the grill in a well-ventilated location. Never barbecue inside homes, tents or vehicles. Burning charcoal indoors can kill you. It gives off carbon monoxide, which has no odor…

Winter Warning For Southern Latiitudes
Families warned amid cold snap
The Australian
F&R NSW Superintendent Ian Krimmer said. “Don’t, under any circumstances, bring outdoor equipment into the home. They produce deadly carbon monoxide gas.”…

Mystery of Kazakhstan's 'Sleepy Hollow' disease tracked to uranium mine
RT
“The cause of the disease... has been established. It's carbon monoxide,” said Deputy Prime Minister Berdybek Saparbayev. “There used to be a uranium mine in the area, which is now closed. Occasionally it released carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon [sic, presumably methane] in high concentrations... That is when these 'sleepy disease' outbreaks happened.”…

Warnings, just like indoor monster truck and motocross events!
Air quality concerns make hotel implosion bad for spectators
Detroit Free Press
Saturday's scheduled implosion of the Park Avenue Hotel may sound like a compelling spectator event. But you may want to think twice… Watching the hotel come down, particularly outside in the immediate area, will likely expose onlookers to severe — and potentially health-harming — air pollution, according to scientists who've studied the air quality impacts of building implosions…

Cdc Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
New Movie Release 2015
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Public domain video from CDC. Carbon monoxide (sometimes referred to as CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced ... 

Johnson County Contractor Licensing Conference
CO EXperts
Johnson County Kansas - Continuing Education – – Video Link


A well put together video is found with the next link, but remember U.L. 2034 Listed CO Alarms are high level alarms. Use them for protection against accute levels, but be aware you can still experience symptoms of the poisoning even though the devices are in place.
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
DailyMotion
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 

JEMS.com - ...site has been designed with this in mind – to create a visual, interactive, educational resource which can hopefully end incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning and save lives… For more information, please visit - www.thesilentkiller.co.uk 

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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