Saturday, July 18, 2015

Carbon Monoxide News July 18, 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.

“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” Sonia Gandhi (1947, bio link)

"Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix Experience - music link, vintage

Featured News Links – More news links below
4 Dead of Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
NECN
Officials tell NECN affiliate WCSH that the four appear to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a running generator… 

Man died from carbon monoxide poisoning after using 'heat beads' in Greystanes home
Sydney Morning Herald
A man has died from carbon monoxide poisoning after using barbecue coals to heat his bedroom on Friday night… "At this time investigators believe that the deceased had been attempting to heat the room with the heat beads and suffered carbon monoxide poisoning," a police spokesman said…

Chesapeake family saved by carbon monoxide detector
13newsnow.com
A Chesapeake family says a carbon monoxide detector saved their lives yesterday…

Carbon monoxide exposure leaves two people sick
KTTC
Firefighters entered the building with air monitors and discovered 30 parts of carbon monoxide, which they believe came from a water heater…

Southwest retirement home evacuated after carbon monoxide call
Calgary Herald
A faulty heat exchanger was to blame for elevated levels of carbon monoxide that forced the evacuation of a southwest Calgary retirement home ...
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
Fire-fighter points to poverty as reason for people using dangerous outdoor heaters indoors
ABC Online
Fire and Rescue NSW has already been warning people not to bring outdoor equipment in, such as patio heaters indoors… And firefighters in Victoria also suspect that need might be driving people to use outdoor heating and camp stoves inside…

Crackdown on carbon monoxide risk
Leicester City Council
They will also check for blocked flues and poorly-ventilated appliances which can prevent carbon monoxide escaping,…

NOAA says 2014 was hottest year on record, Weather Channel reports
NOLA.com
According to the report, four independent global data sets registered 2014 as the warmest year on record. Europe experienced its warmest year on record, with more than 20 countries setting new record high temperatures. Eastern North America was the only major region of the world to see below-average annual temperatures…

There's a real risk that many of our advancements to human health could be lost
Business Insider
We need to redefine health and talk about people and the planet together because, according to the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet commission, we've been operating as if we can keep on improving health forever and living longer without simultaneously considering the changes occurring in our surrounding environment. That's short-sighted and probably wrong…

Nursing group pushes for clean power
Daily Inter Lake
The event, which was scheduled to have 35 health-care providers from 10 states, was conducted by the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. The group operates under the belief that public health and environmental health are inexorably linked… The nurses involved urged legislators to take action on climate change through initiatives such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan… 

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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