Friday, January 5, 2018

Carbon Monoxide News January 5, 2018, posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
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We can learn from others mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning.

Carbon monoxide safety, we are all in this together.

“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.” Ray Charles (1930-2004, bio link)

"Ain't nothing like the real thing" Marvin Gaye Tammi Terrell - music link

Daily News Links Are Below These Opening Questions And Warnings
How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?

Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe.

After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement.
Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.

Are you in the know?

Do I know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air I breathe every day, everywhere I go?”

There are some people who want to be notified of the presence of carbon monoxide at levels or concentrations as soon as the gas is present, at concentrations well below those that can instigate poor health symptoms but not be high enough levels to sound the CO alarm they own.

There are some people who do not want to push a button on their CO alarm to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in their home, or anywhere.


The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high level alarm

Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms
UL 2034
1.3 Carbon monoxide alarms covered by this standard are not intended to alarm when exposed to long-term, low-level carbon monoxide exposures or slightly higher short-term transient carbon monoxide exposures, possibly caused by air pollution and/or properly installed/maintained fuel-fired appliances and fireplaces…

Bob Dwyer
Carbon Monoxide Safety Association

COSA provides Carbon Monoxide safety education and training.

Carbon Monoxide News Links –
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13-year-old dies, 35 others sickened in NJ carbon monoxide poisoning
ABC News
One teenager has died and dozens of people were sickened after a massive carbon monoxide leak at an apartment building in New Jersey late Thursday. Seven of those treated for poisoning were first responders… According to WABC, a criminal investigation is underway because although there were many carbon monoxide detectors in the building, none of them worked…

Carbon Monoxide Nearly Claims Woman in Atlantic Highlands
Atlantic Highlands Herald
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ - Firefighters responded to a home on Harborview Drive today and saved a woman who otherwise might have succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. The gas vents of her home had become blocked with snow from the drifts…

10 people overcome by carbon monoxide fumes
Victoria Advocate
First responders were sent at 7:49 p.m. to 321 E. Main St., where an unconscious person was reported at Masonic Lodge No. 76, said DeWitt County Sheriff Carl Bowen… Bowen said he thinks the carbon monoxide, or CO, was coming from a furnace, but it is still under investigation… He said investigators planned to wait for the carbon monoxide levels to come down to make a more accurate assessment…

Westfield family overcome by carbon monoxide from a gas heater leak
WRTV Indianapolis
WESTFIELD, Ind. -- A very close call for a Westfield family after they were overcome by carbon monoxide in their home. "Gas meter detected high levels of CO on all levels of the house. And they were dangerous levels,"… "Luckily one of the family members woke up and had to go to work and started to recognize those signs and symptoms and started asking other family members, seeing what they were feeling, and they were able to leave the residence. And had it been an hour longer, they might not have been able to do that," said Southerland… The fire department says a broken vent pipe from a gas heater caused the carbon monoxide leak…

Carbon monoxide leak sends 6 to hospitals
DeKalb Daily Chronicle
GENOA – Six employees at a pallet sales business were taken to area hospitals and another three were treated at the scene after fire crews and ambulances from across the area responded midday Thursday to a carbon monoxide detector alarm… Stoffregen said it is suspected there was a problem in the facility’s ventilation system that caused the build up of carbon monoxide… “The main symptoms include headache and nausea, along with being tired or drowsy,” he said…

9 people hospitalized with possible carbon monoxide poisoning
News 12 Westchester
At least nine people from a Yonkers apartment building have been rushed to the hospital overnight with possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Police say they got a call around 2:30 a.m. today and rushed to the home at 104 Oak St. They say nine people from three different apartments in the house were complaining about lightheadedness, dizziness, and vomiting. They were all conscious when dealing with EMT personnel…

High carbon monoxide levels found in Sheboygan business
MySheboygan
Employees were evacuated from the building while Wisconsin Public Service was called to investigate. “Our crew did detect the presence of carbon monoxide after arriving on scene, and worked with the responding authorities to ventilate the building and make the area safe,” said Matt Cullen, Senior Communications Specialist at WPS. “Our crew is still on scene and is working to further investigate this incident.”…

Pensioner lucky to be alive after MASSIVE leak of lethal gas
Birmingham Mail
A fire crew were at the scene within minutes and used specialist equipment which showed what they described as 'massive' readings of carbon monoxide – the highest being in her bedroom, which showed 400ppm (parts per million)… The woman said: “The fire service were brilliant, I can’t thank them enough. I had started to have headaches and feel sleepy. When the alarm went off, I immediately turned off the central heating, opened the windows and the door and went outside for some fresh air. I called the fire service to tell them what had happened and to ask if there was anything else I should do. I wasn’t expecting them to send anyone out, but I’m glad they did…

Local family recounts horror of close call with carbon monoxide poisoning
Oswego County News Now
OSWEGO — Sue and Sadaff’s sister, Sally Khawaja, said she was in so much pain she couldn’t sleep, and in the morning decided to go with her husband and two children, Harram and Hashir, to the Oswego Hospital… “The doctor said he believed it was a stomach bug so he gave us nausea medicine and an IV and sent us home to Liverpool,” Sally said. “But the medication wasn’t helping at all and we were still feeling all the same symptoms.”… Sue said she was in the hospital telling them of her symptoms when a nurse came up to and asked if her sister (Sally) had just been in there for the same reason… “I can’t thank the nurse for noticing the similarity of our family’s sickness and figuring out it was carbon monoxide poisoning…

Please Note: "Place a carbon monoxide alarm with a digital display on a seat in the motor vehicle when you are out driving in emergency snow conditions (or always for that specific). Harmful levels of carbon monoxide (CO) can penetrate inside a motor vehicle just due to prevailing winds and exhaust not moving away from the vehicle but under it. If you want to learn more about carbon monoxide, begin measuring it with a personal CO monitor everywhere you go." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety 
  
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Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin
Carbon Monoxide Intoxication 
Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience
Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…

Carbon monoxide intoxication. 
nih.gov
However individuals with ischemic heart disease may experience chest pain and decreased exercise duration at COHb levels between 1% and 9%. COHb levels between 30% and 70% lead to loss of consciousness and eventually death…


Carbon Monoxide Safety Tips
National Fire Protection Association
… If the CO alarm sounds, immediately move to a fresh air location outdoors or by an open window or door. Make sure everyone inside the home is accounted for. Call for help from a fresh air location and stay there until emergency personnel….

NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms
VISUAL DISPLAY:
Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation
AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30 Percent

SENSITIVITY TESTING: Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time
70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]
150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]
400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]

“CITIZENS WILL CONTINUE TO DIE & BECOME SERIOUSLY ILL DAILY!”

George Kerr (1933-2017)

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: Carbon Monoxide Survivor

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
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CO, Air Quality & Pollution News Links

Indiana board unblocks local carbon monoxide detector rules
South Bend Tribune
The state Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission voted Wednesday to let the ordinances from Chesterton and Porter County in northwestern Indiana take effect. The board, dominated by construction industry representatives, turned down the Chesterton ordinance in October and has turned down a Michigan City ordinance… Chesterton Fire Chief John Jarka said he was grateful to finally get approval for the city's ordinance on detectors for the odorless, poisonous gas produced by malfunctioning fuel-burning appliances. Indiana is among a dozen states without such a requirement… "I would just hope that the state would adopt it in the code," Jarka said…

The effects of carbon monoxide poisoning
Big Country Homepage
It can happen to anyone, at any time… "A squirrel has gotten into that pipe somehow over the summer months when they weren't using it and built a nest and when they went to go use it well the squirrel left because of the poisons gases, the gases built up in their home, filled their home up and there you have carbon monoxide poisoning," said J Sanders, the personal development manager for the Abilene Fire Department… The symptoms can easily be confused with the flu, like a headache, nausea and confusion. When you have CO poisoning you do not have enough oxygen in your system…  

US Energy Information Administration
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government...

Sit and rest a while; miss the children, prevent repeating this tragedy.
Corfu carbon monoxide deaths: Memorial unveiled in Horbury
BBC News
A memorial bench to two young children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on holiday in Corfu has been unveiled in West Yorkshire…


To all parents everywhere; grief's pain alerts others

Out of tragedy comes the light of love
Chester County Press
Inside, Carly and Daulton had passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning. The gas tank was empty and the ignition was still on. Fumes from the exhaust had been drawn into the car through the air vents… “One of the best things for me is to talk to parents who have also lost a child,” Donna said.

VideoNex
In this informative and succinct video, learn how to identify and appropriately execute the use of a CO2 Fire Extinguisher…


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 ...
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 acute levels, but be aware you can still experience symptoms of the poisoning even though the devices are in place.

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

Tribute
George Kerr, a pioneer in smoke and carbon monoxide alarm manufacturing passed away in his home during the early morning of July 4, 2017. George will always be remembered for his passion to save lives and protect the health of people through low level carbon monoxide detection and alarming. He lived for over 84 years, beginning his career in fire safety in 1953. “We’ll never know how many lives we’re saving, but I know we are saving a few.” George E. Kerr (1933-2017)

These following links may be of some use to you:
- The World Clock - Time Zones
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.

National Conference of State Legislatures Thirty-two (32) U.S. states along with the District of Columbia have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain buildings. Updated May 2017
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Iowa | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | Nebraska | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
North Carolina | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island |Tennessee
Texas
| Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington |West Virginia | Wisconsin |


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
Masimo - see RAD 57
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
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