Thursday, February 8, 2018

Carbon Monoxide News February 8, 2018, 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.

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” Orson Welles (1915-1985, bio link)

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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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DC rec center employees treated for carbon monoxide poisoning
WJLA
Abc7 has learned that 2 city employees who work at the Hardy Recreation Center in NW are being treated for exposure to carbon monoxide. Workers today are replacing the furnace. A Dept of Rec spokesmen said the center’s been closed since Monday evening…

Henderson Grocery Evacuated due to Carbon Monoxide
SurfKY News (blog)
HENDERSON, Ky. (2/7/18) — Grocery shoppers and store workers at Sureway Market off Watson Lane in Henderson were evacuated just before 2 p.m. today. Henderson Fire Department responded to the store after receiving a 911 call from a customer regarding possible carbon monoxide inside… “When we arrived on scene, the CO levels were 70ppm” said Henderson Fire Department Lt. Michael Polley. “The store was having plumbing work done and workers were using a gas saw, which caused the high levels.”…

Firefighters respond to Birsdboro business, Wyomissing restaurant
Reading Eagle
About 10 minutes later, crews were called to Ruby Tuesday, a restaurant at the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, for an odor of something burning and a carbon-monoxide alarm activation. Workers evacuated the restaurant and firefighters used gas meters that confirmed an elevated level of carbon monoxide…

Call to fire department helps avoid tragedy
Huron Daily Tribune
Peruski said a friend of the homeowner was concerned that the homeowner was lightheaded and dizzy, and suspected carbon monoxide. Peruski responded to the home with a detector and entered a garage that the man had been working in… "You could tell he had some type of heater in the garage," said Peruski. "Our carbon monoxide detector -- the numbers just started climbing." Peruski learned the homeowner had been out in the shop for about an hour using a propane heater to stay warm. However, there was no ventilation in the structure…

Norfolk resident saved by firefighters
The Sun Chronicle
"They located a male in his 20s or 30s semi-conscious and pulled him to the exterior for treatment by firefighter/paramedics." The victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "The cause of the carbon monoxide was the result of multiple charcoal grills in the home,"…

Leechburg Woman Dies in Afternoon Fire
The Kittanning Paper
Cause of death was ruled Carbon Monoxide Asphyxiation and the manner of death was ruled accidental… Fire fighters had problems fighting the blaze. One firefighter confirmed the house was filled with “stuff” and it was difficult to get through it… Pearl Sendry, 96, was found on the couch in one of the front rooms of the residence…

Snow continues to disrupt Sea of Japan coast
NHK WORLD
Another 2 people likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning after getting stuck in their vehicles. Weather officials are warning residents in Fukui Prefecture about transportation delays. More than 1,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces have been digging out vehicles…

Carbon monoxide fumes may have killed elderly couple
MENAFN.COM
Carbon monoxide poisoning has been blamed for the deaths of an 84-year-old man and his 62-year-old carer in Taiwan's Miaoli County, with preliminary investigations pointing to fumes from a gas water heater…

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

Sick of Waiting: Hurricane relief workers exposed to CO sue company
WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
The only thing it was sending us was the carbon monoxide.” The workers were taken to a local hospital and treated for carbon monoxide exposure. But recovering from the hospital bills is going to take much longer… they found out an industrial pressure washer, being operated by another crew outside the building, was sending fumes inside… All the employees filed for workers’ compensation through the company that hired them and its insurance company… But their claims were denied…

Expert: Be on alert for carbon monoxide threat
Fairmont Sentinel
SHERBURN — … an emergency medical technician in Trimont, led a discussion about home safety awareness Wednesday morning at the senior citizen center in Sherburn… Jeff Sinn says it is important this time of year to be aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide… “Some people use the oven for a heater in the winter, whether it’s a gas oven or a liquid propane,” he noted. “They’ll open up the stove and turn on the burners and let that heat the kitchen, and that’s a prime source of carbon monoxide, which you want to avoid.”… Sinn also said many people use small LP heaters in the garage while they work, or in a fish house, where there is little to no venting. Repeated exposure can cause health issues in the long term, and whether those are treatable will become an issue…

Northwoods Students Get Lessons On Natural Gas Safety
WXPR
"....that's one of the things our natural gas mechanics try to provide during these safety presentations is that we want students to be aware of and prepared for circumstances where they might detect natural gas or carbon monoxide so they can be prepared to take proper precautions to protect themselves and other members of their families or neighborhoods safe...." "...each February, WPS natural gas mechanics provide safety presentations to provide students throughout our service area with information on how to safely use natural gas as an energy source…

Bangkok air pollution warning, children asked to stay indoors
swissinfo.ch
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Residents in Bangkok, one of the world's top tourist destinations, were warned on Thursday the city's air quality had hit dangerous levels just days after the country's pollution control agency appealed to residents to wear face masks… Air pollution in the Thai capital has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks with residents complaining of smog and respiratory problems. Some schools were closed on Thursday or kept children indoors…

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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