tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82079395264581228812024-03-18T03:27:14.639-06:00Carbon Monoxide NewsEvery Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comBlogger4806125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-55088584248869543352024-03-18T03:26:00.000-06:002024-03-18T03:26:41.771-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 18, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 18</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/john-updike-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>John Updike</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.notablebiographies.com/Tu-We/Updike-John.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1932-2009 John Updike <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_UjPNyRJg"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Tret Fure</b> (b. 1951) "<i>Lavender Moonshine</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 18, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b><span style="color: red;">Update</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://fox11online.com/news/state/crandon-school-district-to-remain-closed-two-more-weeks&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzUyNjA1MDI2Mjk1NTk4MjE1NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2fs6R9ZZsZ_KsJPb_DhtQ-" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Crandon School District to remain closed two more weeks</span></b></a><br /><b>Fox 11 News</b><br />CRANDON, WI (WLUK) - “After thorough investigations and in consultation with relevant authorities, it has been determined that further testing and inspection are necessary to conclusively address these concerns,” wrote (Interim District Administrator Kirby) Schultz. “Therefore, we have decided to extend the closure of the school through spring break.” - The Crandon School District will remain closed the next two weeks due to concerns with a potential carbon monoxide leak that caused 39 people to receive medical care this past week. (Sourced through this Fox 11 and WLUK headline news link)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet.</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a><br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process</span></b></a><br /><b>ScienceDirect.com</b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Medical waste tossed into specialized fires.</span></b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.maryland.gov/mde/2024/03/14/maryland-department-of-the-environment-attorney-general-file-complaint-in-circuit-court-against-curtis-bay-energy-medical-waste-incinerator-for-air-pollution-violations/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMTg2Njk4MDE1OTg3NDk2OTUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0skggmrqqBhs1KZL_2Mszz" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Maryland Department of the Environment, Attorney General File Complaint in Circuit Court Against Curtis Bay Energy Medical Waste Incinerator for Air Pollution Violations</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">Maryland News - Maryland.gov</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">The complaint alleges that the facility exceeded its permitted emissions limits for carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride and particulate matter. (See much more at this Maryland News – Maryland.gov headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-28164708667530189062024-03-17T06:23:00.000-06:002024-03-17T06:23:23.366-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 17, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; 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text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 17</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/kate-greenaway-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Kate Greenaway sourced</b> through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kate-Greenaway"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1846-1901 <b>Kate Greenaway bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1K5LeoBkAE"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"<i>Eyes of a Child</i>" The Moody Blues YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXqP0oy6XTc"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>John Sebastian</b> (b. 1944) "<i>You're a Big Boy Now</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 17, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://6abc.com/children-carbon-monoxide-philadelphia-holmesburg-stanwood-street/14533874/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU5OTM0NDY4MTkyMjUwOTQ1NTMyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3Dvv5AWdzYGpdwU3xCnmWO"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">3 children rushed to hospital for carbon monoxide exposure in Philadelphia</span></b></a> <br /><b>6ABC </b><br />PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Three children in Philadelphia's Holmesburg neighborhood were rushed to the hospital on Saturday after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide. - Authorities were called to a home on the 4100 block of Stanwood Street to check on reports of a woman screaming. (Sourced through this 6ABC headline link) <br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Update</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://fox11online.com/news/state/crandon-school-district-to-remain-closed-two-more-weeks&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzUyNjA1MDI2Mjk1NTk4MjE1NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2fs6R9ZZsZ_KsJPb_DhtQ-"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Crandon School District to remain closed two more weeks</span></b></a> <br /><b>Fox 11 News </b><br />CRANDON, WI (WLUK) - “After thorough investigations and in consultation with relevant authorities, it has been determined that further testing and inspection are necessary to conclusively address these concerns,” wrote (Interim District Administrator Kirby) Schultz. “Therefore, we have decided to extend the closure of the school through spring break.” - The Crandon School District will remain closed the next two weeks due to concerns with a potential carbon monoxide leak that caused 39 people to receive medical care this past week. (Sourced through this Fox 11 and WLUK headline news link)</div><div><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.kktv.com/2024/03/16/colorado-springs-firefighters-urge-people-clear-snow-vents/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTExMjk4MjI3OTk2NDg4MTcxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2imOFKnuIBKhsKiVbEt5Sh" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Colorado Springs firefighters urge people to clear snow from vents</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">KKTV</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Many across Southern Colorado spent time Friday clearing snow from their driveways, sidewalks, and cars. - Colorado Springs firefighters said you should make sure your furnace and dryer vents are also clear of snow. - Springs Fire chief Randy Royal said blocked vents can lead to a build-up of carbon monoxide inside a home, which can lead to fatal results. (See this KKTV headline link)</span></span><br /><u style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet.</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a><br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process</span></b></a><br /><b>ScienceDirect.com</b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Medical waste tossed into specialized fires.</span></b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.maryland.gov/mde/2024/03/14/maryland-department-of-the-environment-attorney-general-file-complaint-in-circuit-court-against-curtis-bay-energy-medical-waste-incinerator-for-air-pollution-violations/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMTg2Njk4MDE1OTg3NDk2OTUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0skggmrqqBhs1KZL_2Mszz" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Maryland Department of the Environment, Attorney General File Complaint in Circuit Court Against Curtis Bay Energy Medical Waste Incinerator for Air Pollution Violations</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">Maryland News - Maryland.gov</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">The complaint alleges that the facility exceeded its permitted emissions limits for carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride and particulate matter. (See much more at this Maryland News – Maryland.gov headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-73439000884314065272024-03-16T06:04:00.000-06:002024-03-16T06:04:49.317-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 16, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 16</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rene-daumal-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Rene Daumal</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a> </div><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3020747.Ren_Daumal"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1908-1944 René Daumal <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO2F0Ccx2K4"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Michael Bruce</b> (b. 1948) "<i>In My Own Way</i>" <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 16, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.wbay.com/2024/03/15/unknown-illness-crandon-school-district-traced-carbon-monoxide-mechanical-issue-with-furnace/"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">‘Unknown illness’ at Crandon School District traced to broken furnace</span></b></a> <br /><b>WBAY </b><br />CRANDON, Wis. (WBAY) - The “unknown illness” that sickened multiple people at the Crandon School District Building on Thursday was connected to a mechanical issue with the furnace that created elevated levels of carbon monoxide inside the school. - Around Thursday afternoon, several students and staff were treated for symptoms that included lightheadedness, tingling, numbness in extremities, shortness of breath, slurred speech, and rapid heartbeat. The school was evacuated and authorities were called to the scene. Two EMS workers who responded also became sick. (See this WBAY headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.kktv.com/2024/03/16/colorado-springs-firefighters-urge-people-clear-snow-vents/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTExMjk4MjI3OTk2NDg4MTcxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2imOFKnuIBKhsKiVbEt5Sh"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Colorado Springs firefighters urge people to clear snow from vents</span></b></a> <br /><b>KKTV </b><br />COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Many across Southern Colorado spent time Friday clearing snow from their driveways, sidewalks, and cars. - Colorado Springs firefighters said you should make sure your furnace and dryer vents are also clear of snow. - Springs Fire chief Randy Royal said blocked vents can lead to a build-up of carbon monoxide inside a home, which can lead to fatal results. (See this KKTV headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://baytobaynews.com/stories/georgetown-council-adopts-safety-ordinances-geared-toward-heating-sources-grilling,130477&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoUMTExMjk4MjI3OTk2NDg4MTcxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1OYRDYjoVAOeFYunWYRHTM"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Georgetown council adopts safety ordinances geared toward heating sources, grilling </span></b></a> <br /><b>Bay to Bay News</b><br />Georgetown, DE - The council approved the second reading and adoption of ordinances pertaining to smoke detectors, the addition of carbon monoxide alarms to the town code and location of outdoor grills. - “This clarifies the code and also adds carbon monoxide,” said town manager Eugene Dvornick. “It also specifies locations for smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms.” (See this Bay to Bay News headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/cpsc-recalls-textron-vehicles-honeywell-fire-alarm-sounders-boilers-1033166869&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSNTY0MzU5MjU4NjU4NzUzODgxMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw28y_i7FsuKrcVF66UXboF9"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CPSC Recalls: Textron Vehicles, Honeywell Fire Alarm Sounders, Boilers</span></b></a> <br /><b>Business Insider </b><br />The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission or CPSC has announced recalls - The sounders and strobes can malfunction and cause the fire alarm system to fail to alert consumers of a fire. The recall was initiated after Honeywell received two reports of low or no sound output during installation. But no injuries have been reported to date. - U.S. Boiler's recall involves about 2,500 units of gas-fired hot water residential boilers with brand names U.S. Boiler, New Yorker Boiler, Advantage, FORCE and Archer. (See more at this Business Insider headline link)</div><div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Update: Death of Jonathan Rodriguez, lived in an on-campus apartment</span></b></span></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.koin.com/news/washington/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-death-evergreen-state-college/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQwMjk2MzY5ODg2MDYxODcwNDcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1NuD8CScCKC6yJ7U2f_ven" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Carbon monoxide poisoning led to death of Evergreen State College student</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">KOIN.com</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.52px;">Olympia, Washington - According to the investigation, the carbon monoxide detectors began sounding an alarm on Dec. 11, but maintenance workers assumed it was due to a faulty alarm. (See this KOIN.com headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet.</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a><br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process</span></b></a><br /><b>ScienceDirect.com</b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Medical waste tossed into specialized fires.</span></b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.maryland.gov/mde/2024/03/14/maryland-department-of-the-environment-attorney-general-file-complaint-in-circuit-court-against-curtis-bay-energy-medical-waste-incinerator-for-air-pollution-violations/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMTg2Njk4MDE1OTg3NDk2OTUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0skggmrqqBhs1KZL_2Mszz" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Maryland Department of the Environment, Attorney General File Complaint in Circuit Court Against Curtis Bay Energy Medical Waste Incinerator for Air Pollution Violations</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">Maryland News - Maryland.gov</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">The complaint alleges that the facility exceeded its permitted emissions limits for carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride and particulate matter. (See much more at this Maryland News – Maryland.gov headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-27964579540855788962024-03-15T04:33:00.000-06:002024-03-15T04:33:46.343-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 15, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 15</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Mankind invents things to fight about. I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you</i>.” </span><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mike-love-quotes" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Mike Love</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a></div><a href="https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/michael-edward-love-2379.php"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(b. 1941 Mike Love <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsHnoOIjVM"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Mike Love</b> "<i>The Butterfly Remains</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 15, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b><span style="color: red;">Boating in Washington</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/boats/get-carbon-monoxide-warning-sticker&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTIzMjAzMDI5NjA5NjA3NjEwODQyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34-VKPqnhuU74NZZsf7rxV"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Get a carbon monoxide warning sticker</span></b></a><br /><b>Washington State Department of Licensing - WA.gov</b><br />You must display an approved sticker that warns passengers of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning on all motor-driven vessels (other than Jet Ski-type personal watercraft). - You must attach the sticker on the interior of the boat so it's clearly visible to the passengers. If you're unsure where to place your sticker, call a vehicle and boat licensing office for help. (See more at this Washington State Department of Licensing - WA.gov headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://muskoka411.com/alarming-number-of-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-violations-in-2023/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTMyMjE0OTM0MjgwNjkyMzAxMjgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3cm0y5UoVGLk3wqlqdIFlJ"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Alarming Number Of Smoke And Carbon Monoxide Violations In 2023</span></b></a> <br /><b>Muskoka 411 </b><br />Ontario, Canada - “Despite the fire department’s best efforts to educate the community and provide smoke alarms for free, there are still a startling number of smoke alarm fines levied in 2023. Although enforcement is not our preferred approach, we take a zero-tolerance approach to those not in compliance with working smoke alarms”, said Fire Chief Ryan Murrell. “It is unfortunate that owners who collect rent from others are negligent respecting the requirements to protect occupants”. - The Ontario Fire Code requires… (See this Muskoka411.com headline link for more information.) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/appliance-recalls/us-boiler-gas-hot-water-boilers-recalled-for-co-risk-a2899635704/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzkxNjExMTQxNjE3NzY0MTYyMDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0n-vTvPNMGsw7z_mH78V02"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">U.S. Boiler Company Recalls Gas Boilers due to Carbon Monoxide</span></b></a> <br /><b>Consumer Reports </b><br />U.S. Boiler Company has recalled about 2,500 residential gas-fired hot-water boilers under the brand names U.S. Boiler, New Yorker Boiler, Advantage, FORCE, and Archer due to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning at altitudes above 5,400 feet. - If the vent system becomes blocked above that altitude, the blocked vent switch can fail to shut down the burners, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In that event, the boiler can emit excessive amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) into the home, posing a carbon monoxide poisoning hazard to consumers. (See this Consumer Reports headline link) <br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Update: Death of Jonathan Rodriguez, lived in an on-campus apartment</span></b></span></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.koin.com/news/washington/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-death-evergreen-state-college/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQwMjk2MzY5ODg2MDYxODcwNDcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1NuD8CScCKC6yJ7U2f_ven" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Carbon monoxide poisoning led to death of Evergreen State College student</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">KOIN.com</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.52px;">Olympia, Washington - According to the investigation, the carbon monoxide detectors began sounding an alarm on Dec. 11, but maintenance workers assumed it was due to a faulty alarm. (See this KOIN.com headline link)</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A lot of people, a lot of medical waste tossed into the fires.</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://news.maryland.gov/mde/2024/03/14/maryland-department-of-the-environment-attorney-general-file-complaint-in-circuit-court-against-curtis-bay-energy-medical-waste-incinerator-for-air-pollution-violations/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMTg2Njk4MDE1OTg3NDk2OTUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0skggmrqqBhs1KZL_2Mszz"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Maryland Department of the Environment, Attorney General File Complaint in Circuit Court Against Curtis Bay Energy Medical Waste Incinerator for Air Pollution Violations</b></span></a><br /><b>Maryland News - Maryland.gov</b><br />The complaint alleges that the facility exceeded its permitted emissions limits for carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride and particulate matter. (See much more at this Maryland News – Maryland.gov headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet.</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a><br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process</span></b></a><br /><b>ScienceDirect.com</b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)<div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-62658244001268026712024-03-14T06:35:00.000-06:002024-03-14T06:35:24.452-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 14, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 14</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/algernon-blackwood-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Algernon Blackwood</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://americanliterature.com/author/algernon-blackwood/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1869-1951 Algernon Blackwood <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzfOIpah6s"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Quincy Jones</b> (b. 1933) "<i>Walking In Space</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 14, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Update: Death of Jonathan Rodriguez, lived in an on-campus apartment</span></b></span></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.koin.com/news/washington/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-death-evergreen-state-college/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQwMjk2MzY5ODg2MDYxODcwNDcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1NuD8CScCKC6yJ7U2f_ven"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">Carbon monoxide poisoning led to death of Evergreen State College student</span></b></a> <br /><b><span style="font-family: arial;">KOIN.com </span></b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Olympia, Washington - According to the investigation, the carbon monoxide detectors began sounding an alarm on Dec. 11, but maintenance workers assumed it was due to a faulty alarm. - Investigators found that gas levels outside the utility room where the heater was installed were enough to render someone unconscious within 10-15 minutes. The apartment where the students were found had levels that could make someone dizzy and convulsive within 20 minutes and even lead to death within an hour. (See this KOIN.com headline link) </span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/3-assessed-high-carbon-monoxide-levels-charlotte-construction-site/XJD6CPA7ZFAFZH4M2APBFANLLU/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDQ3NTc2ODg0NTYyNjI4OTQ4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3GUe5CGGACFVyMh6U3cP20"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">3 assessed for high carbon monoxide levels at Charlotte construction site</span></b></a> <br /><b>WSOC TV </b><br />Three patients were turned over to MEDIC for treatment, Charlotte Fire said. So far, MEDIC has confirmed one of those patients has potentially serious injuries. - At the scene, Charlotte Fire told Channel 9 crews were doing construction at the back of the building when they struck something, causing carbon monoxide to leak into the HVAC. (See this WSOC TV headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.koin.com/news/portland/portland-bans-gas-leaf-blowers/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQwMjk2MzY5ODg2MDYxODcwNDcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2gvtyN0OByoxGB8iQqRi77"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Portland City Council unanimously bans gas-powered leaf blowers </span></b></a> <br /><b>KOIN.com </b><br />Portland, Oregon - The city’s reasons for the proposed ban include air and noise pollution, health concerns, and disproportionate impacts on specific groups. - “Gasoline leaf blowers most commonly have two-stroke engines that incompletely combust their fuel, resulting in the emission of benzene and additional carcinogenic substances,” the ordinance proposal states…” (See this KOIN.com headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-events/latest-news/urgent-safety-warning-for-boat-owners/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNzY4ODIzNjMyNTMwODM2OTU2NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1lm1usYUvlcR9dRlxEsHxp"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Urgent safety warning for boat owners</span></b></a> <br /><b>Cheshire Fire Service </b><br />Following a fatal fire on a domestic narrow boat in Lymm, firefighters are advising boat owners to fit smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. - "We have comprehensive advice for boat owners and would urge everyone to read it and act upon it for their own safety and that of their loved ones." (See this Chesire Fire Service headline link)<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></u></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet.</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a><br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process</span></b></a><br /><b>ScienceDirect.com</b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)<div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-21350006508261630182024-03-13T08:04:00.000-06:002024-03-13T08:04:07.999-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 13, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 13</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">“<i>I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives</i>.” </span><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/donella-meadows-quotes" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Donella Meadows</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a></div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/22/us/donella-meadows-59-author-and-advocate-for-environment.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1941-2001 Donella Meadows <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cbiR-4DPQ"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>"Blue" Mitchell</b> (1930-1979) "<i>Summer Soft</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 13, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Over 8 billion people inhabit the planet. </span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today?</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = increasing the risks.</span> </b></div><div><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year - When were you born?</span></b></a><b> </b></div><div><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A World-Wide Issue – Population growth fuels fires and garbage</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-450m-question-to-burn-our-trash-or-not-to-burn-our-trash-1.7141227&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzMDkzMjU1MTIxNjMwNDc2NjEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw34LrcnzNVsXoM_Wzs0dy-3"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ottawa's $450M question: To burn our trash or not to burn our trash?</span></b></a> <br /><b>CBC</b><br />The burning trash heats water to produce steam, propelling turbines to create enough electricity each year to power 10,000 homes. (See more at this CBC headline link) <br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">And we have poop!</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890424000840&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTg0NDUyNTk5MTgzNjc2OTc4NzcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LLmBGFNzIyo4qb6zbofdu"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Development and conceptual design of a sewage Sludge-to-Fuel hybrid Process </span></b></a> <br /><b>ScienceDirect.com </b><br />The correct management of sewage sludge can be a promising and fruitful approach to achieve a sustainable society and environment. (See this ScienceDirect.com headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-6621213310339497832024-03-12T05:37:00.000-06:002024-03-12T05:37:30.641-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 12, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 12</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/edward-albee-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Edward Albee</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Albee"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1928-2016 Edward Albee <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1owL8n-gfbY"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Mike Gibbins</b> (1949-2005) "<i>A Place in Time</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 12, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/mar/11/evergreen-state-college-expects-student-death-investigation-to-be-released-this-week-president-says/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTgyMTA3NDQyMDQyMjQ5ODg4NTAyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2svV-OE1loALdfiOv9j2dA"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Evergreen State College expects student death investigation to be released this week, president says </span></b></a> <br /><b>The Columbian </b><br />Olympia - The incident was discovered by a student residence manager who couldn’t reach the three students inside the housing. - An Evergreen police officer entered the unit, found the students unconscious and tried to revive them. The officer was poisoned by carbon monoxide as well, and was treated at the hospital, The Olympian previously reported. – (Jonathan) Rodriguez, 21, of DuPont, died Dec. 11 from exposure to carbon monoxide in modular housing at the college. Two other students, a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old woman, were hospitalized from exposure to the gas, but recovered, (See The Columbian headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-90955037800986690602024-03-11T04:35:00.000-06:002024-03-11T04:35:32.297-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 11, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 11</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>You live and learn. At any rate, you live</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/douglas-adams-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Douglas Adams</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.famousauthors.org/douglas-adams"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1951-2001 Douglas Adams <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zhyk6PTKdc"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Bobby Lyle</b> (b. 1944) "<i>Secret Island</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 11, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-89475376735655149032024-03-10T06:15:00.000-06:002024-03-10T06:15:01.989-06:00Carbon Monoxide News March 10, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 10</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jim-valvano-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Jim Valvano</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1717366/bio"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1846-1993 Jim Valvano <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCg_i4QBB9M"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Jeff Ament</b> (b. 1963) "<i>When the fire comes</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 10, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Early Carbon Monoxide Detection</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-canary-coal-mine-story-how-real-life-animal-helper-became-just-metaphor-180961570/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMjE4ODg2NTc5ODU1ODk2ODAyNTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw27EH9vUh1XgHe6ZNj73ra6" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What Happened to the Canary in the Coal Mine? The Story of How the Real-Life Animal Became Just a Metaphor</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">Smithsonian Magazine</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Throughout much of the 20th century, chirping canaries were staples of the coal mining industry. As coal miners descended into the earth—entering a harsh environment often home to poisonous gases like carbon monoxide—they would bring the yellow birds along as safety mechanisms. Because carbon monoxide is clear and odorless, miners needed a method for detecting a leak before it killed them. In the mine, a canary’s collapse let workers know there was poisonous gas in the air and gave them some warning time to evacuate. (See more at this Smithsonian Magazine headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-34614125233260230412024-03-09T05:10:00.000-07:002024-03-09T05:10:38.212-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 9, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 9</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>The paths of life are intermingled lives</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/haniel-long-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Haniel Long</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://poetandpoem.com/Haniel-Long"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1910-1956 Haniel Long <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7HAeMVDiQ"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Zakir Hussain</b> (1997-1969) "<i>Horse Running</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 9, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.winnipeg.ca/news/2024-03-08-winnipeg-fire-paramedic-service-responds-carbon-monoxide-alarm-notre-dame-avenue&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTU2MDUyOTYxNTU0NDc4NTM4OTEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0P01sn1HYmQckgebCDqBak"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responds to carbon monoxide alarm on Notre Dame Avenue </span></b></a> <br /><b>City of Winnipeg </b><br />Winnipeg, MB – At 8:41 a.m. on Friday, March 8, 2024, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) responded to reports of a carbon monoxide alarm in a three-story building in the 400 block of Notre Dame Avenue. - Firefighters worked quickly to evacuate all occupants, and then ventilated the carbon monoxide from the building. (See this City of Winnipeg headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/%3Fp%3D659041&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTAzNDg5MDc2NzExMDk3NDczMzkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3IdjlMTADsM44f7G5UclXJ"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Fort Washington family members suffered from carbon monoxide exposure </span></b></a> <br /><b>Washington Examiner</b><br />The hospital found high levels of carbon monoxide in the 2-year-old, which “more than likely” caused the kid’s symptoms, Fire/EMS spokesman (Mark) Brady said. The hospital then contacted the Fire/EMS department at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to go to the house. - When firefighters and paramedics arrived at the house in the 8300 block of Bernard Drive, they found the wife, housemate and three children — some of whom were unconscious Brady said. - Four members were treated at a hyperbaric chamber. (See this Washington Examiner headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rvgxzp36no&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAzNDg5MDc2NzExMDk3NDczMzkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3-e9td7nQjPmpG4WH47AeJ"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rise in carbon monoxide emergency callout</span></b></a> <br /><b>BBC </b><br />An NGN (Northern Gas Network) official said there is a worry the rise was due to the cost of living crisis as people may not be servicing their appliances as often as they should. -The number of confirmed or suspected cases of carbon monoxide in the north east of England has risen by 37% since 2021… (See this BBC headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Early Carbon Monoxide Detection</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-canary-coal-mine-story-how-real-life-animal-helper-became-just-metaphor-180961570/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMjE4ODg2NTc5ODU1ODk2ODAyNTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw27EH9vUh1XgHe6ZNj73ra6" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What Happened to the Canary in the Coal Mine? The Story of How the Real-Life Animal Became Just a Metaphor</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Smithsonian Magazine</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">Throughout much of the 20th century, chirping canaries were staples of the coal mining industry. As coal miners descended into the earth—entering a harsh environment often home to poisonous gases like carbon monoxide—they would bring the yellow birds along as safety mechanisms. Because carbon monoxide is clear and odorless, miners needed a method for detecting a leak before it killed them. In the mine, a canary’s collapse let workers know there was poisonous gas in the air and gave them some warning time to evacuate. (See more at this Smithsonian Magazine headline link)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-24731607082748910292024-03-08T06:39:00.002-07:002024-03-08T06:39:36.481-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 8, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 8</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/warren-bennis-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Warren Bennis</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/business/warren-g-bennis-scholar-on-leadership-dies-at-89.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1925-2014 Warren G. Bennis <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4LbU8w7Th4"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Richard Farina</b> (1937-1966) & Mimi Farina "<i>Pack up Your Sorrows</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 8, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b><span style="color: red;">Early Carbon Monoxide Detection</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-canary-coal-mine-story-how-real-life-animal-helper-became-just-metaphor-180961570/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTMjE4ODg2NTc5ODU1ODk2ODAyNTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw27EH9vUh1XgHe6ZNj73ra6"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What Happened to the Canary in the Coal Mine? The Story of How the Real-Life Animal Became Just a Metaphor</span></b></a> <br /><b>Smithsonian Magazine </b><br />Throughout much of the 20th century, chirping canaries were staples of the coal mining industry. As coal miners descended into the earth—entering a harsh environment often home to poisonous gases like carbon monoxide—they would bring the yellow birds along as safety mechanisms. Because carbon monoxide is clear and odorless, miners needed a method for detecting a leak before it killed them. In the mine, a canary’s collapse let workers know there was poisonous gas in the air and gave them some warning time to evacuate. (See more at this Smithsonian Magazine headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ckom.com/2024/03/06/saskatchewan-snowstorm-sparks-surge-in-carbon-monoxide-calls/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDM0MzE0MDc1NDk2NjY5OTAzNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw04VRDVjcjcA4cbea7QfX4E" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Saskatchewan snowstorm sparks surge in carbon monoxide calls</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">650 CKOM</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">Fire marshal Brian Conway said the department has received five calls related to carbon monoxide since Friday. In one of those incidents, someone had to be treated on the scene. - Conway said he expects the fire department will receive a few more calls in the coming days because of the snow event. - The venting for a house’s furnace requires air to flow through the intake exhaust pipes, and when heavy snow events hit, it’s important to make sure those vents are clear of snow and ice, Conway explained. (See this 650 CKOM headline link)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/american-red-cross-launches-sound-the-alarm-campaign&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTMxMzI3NzQxOTYwNTQyMDUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2zwICg4In2Y3LUxb-ou_8g" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">American Red Cross launches "Sound the Alarm" campaign</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKBW</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">The goal of the campaign is to teach families about fire safety to prevent fires. - The Red Cross says since its launch in 2014, the Sound the Alarm campaign has helped to save lives in Western New York by installing more than 30,000 free smoke alarms. (See this WKBW headline link)</span><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-58193464597299736122024-03-07T04:16:00.000-07:002024-03-07T04:16:08.954-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 7, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 7</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william-boyd-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>William Boyd</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/william-boyd"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(b. 1952 William Boyd <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPL-yZ3lWuo"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Matthew Fisher</b> (b. 1946) "<i>It's so Easy</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 7, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ckom.com/2024/03/06/saskatchewan-snowstorm-sparks-surge-in-carbon-monoxide-calls/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDM0MzE0MDc1NDk2NjY5OTAzNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw04VRDVjcjcA4cbea7QfX4E"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Saskatchewan snowstorm sparks surge in carbon monoxide calls</span></b></a> <br /><b>650 CKOM </b><br />Fire marshal Brian Conway said the department has received five calls related to carbon monoxide since Friday. In one of those incidents, someone had to be treated on the scene. - Conway said he expects the fire department will receive a few more calls in the coming days because of the snow event. - The venting for a house’s furnace requires air to flow through the intake exhaust pipes, and when heavy snow events hit, it’s important to make sure those vents are clear of snow and ice, Conway explained. (See this 650 CKOM headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/american-red-cross-launches-sound-the-alarm-campaign&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTMxMzI3NzQxOTYwNTQyMDUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2zwICg4In2Y3LUxb-ou_8g" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">American Red Cross launches "Sound the Alarm" campaign</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKBW</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">The goal of the campaign is to teach families about fire safety to prevent fires. - The Red Cross says since its launch in 2014, the Sound the Alarm campaign has helped to save lives in Western New York by installing more than 30,000 free smoke alarms. (See this WKBW headline link)</span><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-76975385519421491642024-03-06T06:11:00.000-07:002024-03-06T06:11:51.762-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 6, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 6</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>He who awaits much can expect little</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/gabriel-garcia-marquez-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Gabriel Garcia Marquez</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(<b>1927-2014</b> Gabriel Garcia Marquez <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvElVGQK0A"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Mary Wilson</b> (1944-2021) "<i>Life's Been Good to Me</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 6, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-ont-couple-credits-co-detector-with-saving-their-lives-1.6795726&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU2MjU0NzMzMzcxMDEwMzczODAyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1Zm6BhjblMfUA5XjOtsF8P"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Guelph, Ont. couple credits CO detector with saving their lives</span></b></a> <br /><b>CTV News Kitchener </b><br />Just to be safe, they phoned 911. - “They advised to get out of the house,” Yee said. - So that’s exactly what they did. - Within minutes, the Guelph Fire Department arrived to investigate. Yee and his wife were surprised by what they eventually found out. (See this CTV News Kitchener headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://asiaplustj.info/en/node/334640&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTExMjU2NTgzMjQzMDkzNzQ5NzkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw21D36OhGtD25PSM8A5Tv43"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Three die of carbon monoxide poisoning in Hisor district amid electricity shortage </b></span></a> <br /><b>ASIA-Plus </b><br />It is already the second such an incident officially registered in the country over the past week. - The 60-year-old father, the 54-year-old mother and their 15-year-old daughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning while heating their home with wood and coal amid electricity shortage in the country, especially in rural areas. (See this ASIA-Plus headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/american-red-cross-launches-sound-the-alarm-campaign&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTMxMzI3NzQxOTYwNTQyMDUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2zwICg4In2Y3LUxb-ou_8g" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">American Red Cross launches "Sound the Alarm" campaign</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKBW</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">The goal of the campaign is to teach families about fire safety to prevent fires. - The Red Cross says since its launch in 2014, the Sound the Alarm campaign has helped to save lives in Western New York by installing more than 30,000 free smoke alarms. (See this WKBW headline link)</span></span><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">MSN</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-33830027752805604312024-03-05T05:55:00.003-07:002024-03-05T05:55:55.802-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 5, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 5</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/daniel-kahneman-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Daniel Kahneman</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(b. 1934 Daniel Kahneman <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSg70tMl2HM"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Dan Stewart</b> (b. 1961) "<i>Gonna' Change</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 5, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/american-red-cross-launches-sound-the-alarm-campaign&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTMxMzI3NzQxOTYwNTQyMDUxNDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2zwICg4In2Y3LUxb-ou_8g"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">American Red Cross launches "Sound the Alarm" campaign</span></b></a> <br /><b>WKBW </b><br />The goal of the campaign is to teach families about fire safety to prevent fires. - The Red Cross says since its launch in 2014, the Sound the Alarm campaign has helped to save lives in Western New York by installing more than 30,000 free smoke alarms. (See this WKBW headline link)<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/air-pollution-and-respiratory-health-in-the-elderly-understanding-the-risks-and-taking-action/ar-BB1hC5bN%3Fapiversion%3Dv2%26noservercache%3D1%26domshim%3D1%26renderwebcomponents%3D1%26wcseo%3D1%26batchservertelemetry%3D1%26noservertelemetry%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNTY3NzgzNzM3MjcxOTI0NDEyNzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3SpFM52LZnvMqq5vNCbDFi"><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> Air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly: Understanding the risks and taking action</b></span></a> <br /><b>MSN </b><br />Air pollution is a pressing environmental issue that poses significant risks to public health, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as the elderly. - With millions of premature deaths worldwide attributed to respiratory conditions exacerbated by poor air quality, understanding the specific impact on elderly individuals is crucial. - This article delves into the relationship between air pollution and respiratory health in the elderly, exploring the risks, contributing factors, and actionable steps for mitigation and protection. (See this MSN headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-20592295751158138292024-03-04T04:32:00.000-07:002024-03-04T04:32:20.126-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 4, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 4</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div>“<i>You see, everybody's got a gift, oh,,, Down to the smallest thing</i>” from:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQDgdnfXkQ"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Bobby Womack</b> (1944-2014) "<i>Gifted One</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 4, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-15136461918472227172024-03-03T04:36:00.000-07:002024-03-03T04:36:34.109-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 3, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 3</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/edmund-waller-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Edmund Waller</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/english-literature-1500-1799-biographies/edmund-waller"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1608-1687 Edmund Waller <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmnGwgxN0mY"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Doc Watson</b> (1923-2012) with Merle Watson "<i>Freight Train Boogie</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 3, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 14.52px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-34619994002813416292024-03-02T05:22:00.000-07:002024-03-02T05:22:32.142-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 2, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 2</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>When all is said and done, it's so hard to count the cost</i>.”</span></div><a href="https://www.grahamnash.com/content/bio"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Graham Nash</b> (b. 1942) from "<i>Myself at Last</i>" <b>bio link</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMon6QHLwSE"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"<i>Myself at Last</i>" by <b>Graham Nash YouTube music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 2, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.timminstoday.com/local-news/timmins-school-evacuated-closed-for-rest-of-day-8383924&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQzMDg4ODEwMDM0NTUzMzY2NDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3bMlbWTAUcPUjQp6zyA9VP"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Timmins school evacuated, closed for rest of day </span></b></a> <br /><b>Timmins Today </b><br />O'Gorman High School was closed after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected, said Northeastern Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) director of education Tricia Weltz in a statement. - Students were evacuated to nearby O'Gorman Intermediate Catholic School. - The Timmins Fire Department responded to the high school and escorted students back in briefly to get their personal items. (See this Timmins Today headline link) <br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Update</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/investigation-into-elm-hill-academy-carbon-monoxide-leak-wraps-up/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjA1NDkzMTk2MjI3NjMyNDYyMDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw24CD-TNlgnlHmXAXNG44D8"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Investigation into Elm Hill Academy carbon monoxide leak wraps up</b></span></a> <br /><b>WKRN </b><br />Haley and Nate Montgomery will never forget Jan. 5. It’s the day they rushed their little girl, Grayton, to the emergency room. - Jan. 5 is the day a parent at Elm Hill Academy brought a carbon monoxide detector to the school, and reported to authorities higher than normal carbon monoxide levels. - The Montgomery’s said their daughter had to be put on oxygen. (See this WKRN headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WKRN</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link)</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.apg-wi.com/price_county_review/co-alarm-saved-lives/article_16fb2df8-d4f8-11ee-8e5b-5737c73e3b05.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNDg4ODU5ODk1NzYyOTg5MjA2MTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1jellxG10BxxFnqD2Vhilu" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CO alarm saved lives</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">apg-wi.com</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">Price County Review – A Park Falls family is crediting a carbon monoxide detector alarm with probably saving their lives the early morning of Feb. 15. They would like to get the word out that it’s a small investment to avoid a big tragedy. - “I want to save people’s lives,” said Amy Kaehn, who said a faulty furnace nearly proved fatal for herself, her husband, Natalino Xuereb, and their two school aged children. Without the alarm the family would have been aware that the colorless, odorless gas was building up to dangerous levels in the home. (See this apg-wi.com headline link)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors in many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and can sound a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-59121418772794664232024-03-01T04:33:00.000-07:002024-03-01T04:33:28.278-07:00Carbon Monoxide News March 1, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>March 1</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/georg-simmel-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Georg Simmel</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-biographies/georg-simmel"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1858-1918 Georg Simmel <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w93FCKN8iD0"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Ralph Towner</b> (b. 1940) "<i>Silence of a Candle</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 1, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-carbon-monoxide-monitors-in-all-childcare-facilities/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0OTU3ODE2Njg1NDIyMjAxMTgyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw24XWaS5SGHbJQno2kDVXHk"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tennessee Senate passes bill requiring carbon monoxide monitors in all childcare facilities </span></b></a> <br /><b>WKRN </b><br />NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As soon as this July, all childcare facilities in Tennessee will be required to be equipped with carbon monoxide monitors. - The installation would necessitate the carbon monoxide alarm be listed according to the International Building Code and the International Fire Code. (See this WKRN headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.apg-wi.com/price_county_review/co-alarm-saved-lives/article_16fb2df8-d4f8-11ee-8e5b-5737c73e3b05.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNDg4ODU5ODk1NzYyOTg5MjA2MTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1jellxG10BxxFnqD2Vhilu"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CO alarm saved lives</span></b></a> <br /><b>apg-wi.com </b><br />Price County Review – A Park Falls family is crediting a carbon monoxide detector alarm with probably saving their lives the early morning of Feb. 15. They would like to get the word out that it’s a small investment to avoid a big tragedy. - “I want to save people’s lives,” said Amy Kaehn, who said a faulty furnace nearly proved fatal for herself, her husband, Natalino Xuereb, and their two school aged children. Without the alarm the family would have been aware that the colorless, odorless gas was building up to dangerous levels in the home. (See this apg-wi.com headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors in many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and can sound a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-60953089689781915172024-02-29T05:59:00.000-07:002024-02-29T05:59:05.715-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 29, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>29</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed</i>.” </span><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/howard-nemerov-quotes" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Howard Nemerov</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Howard-Nemerov-on-poetry-2215536"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1920-1991 Howard Nemerov <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtZK-4k35TQ"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Jimmy Dorsey</b> (1904-1957) "<i>JD's Boogie Woogie</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 29, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-family-die-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/32842331.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ0ODc1MzgzODkzMjQ2NzA5NTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0_rImJiFAwrYyTOXBu52M0"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Six Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Tajikistan Amid Electricity Shortage </span></b></a> <br /><b>Radio Free Europe </b><br />Emergency officials in Tajikistan say a family of six has died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the capital, Dushanbe, while heating their home with wood and coal amid an electricity shortage in the Central Asian nation. (See this Radio Free Europe headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/carbon-monoxide-fumes-prompt-evacuation-of-restaurant-stores-at-mansfield-crossing/article_537c969f-168f-55f5-a72e-cea033f10c55.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQwNjQ2NTk0ODMwMjAxOTA5NTAyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1EhjbB-xNBHwD3B2e8XLGc"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide fumes prompt evacuation of restaurant, stores at Mansfield Crossing </span></b></a> <br /><b>The Sun Chronicle </b><br />MANSFIELD - The fumes were caused by a worker using a gas-powered washer in a common hallway at the rear of the businesses in the mall, located at School Street and Route 140, Deputy Fire Chief John Terry said. - A deadly level of the toxic, odorless colorless gas was detected inside the Cava restaurant but no one in it or any of the stores complained of any symptoms or injuries, Terry said. (See The Sun Chronicle headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.newspressnow.com/news/regional_news/central_missouri/carbon-monoxide-threat-increases-amid-drops-in-temperature/article_07decca5-6e80-58d2-b397-ea80d7ce7b64.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQwNjQ2NTk0ODMwMjAxOTA5NTAyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1rliqZllOuAEoqbDBITxg3"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide threat increases amid drops in temperature</span></b></a> <br /><b>St. Joseph News-Press </b><br />Columbia, Missouri - January, which saw a bitter cold snap, had 30 such calls to firefighters and medics in Boone County, about double the number in December. So far authorities have responded to 18 carbon monoxide alarms in February, including four in the last week. (See this St. Joseph News-Press headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors in many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-48895386569764000752024-02-28T04:15:00.000-07:002024-02-28T04:15:03.253-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 28, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>28</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/michel-de-montaigne-quotes_2"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://biography.yourdictionary.com/michel-de-montaigne"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1533-1592 Michel de Montaigne <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1HAAHvAgxc"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Don Ciccone</b> (1946-2016) "<i>Just a Little Love</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 28, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.breakinglatest.news/news/fatal-carbon-monoxide-accident-in-a-hotel-on-the-baltic-sea/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQwODY4NzIxMzg1ODczODgxMTcyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1PWqGzPN18diyTl_gTM6VG"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Fatal carbon monoxide accident in a hotel on the Baltic Sea</span></b></a> <br /><b>Breaking Latest News </b><br />A 52-year-old was unresponsive and was flown to a special clinic. Her condition remains critical. According to the police, both come from Bavaria. In addition, six people reported nausea and dizziness and were taken to hospitals. The investigation into the cause is ongoing. The hotel had been evacuated and guests were accommodated in another accommodation facility. 65 people were in the house at the time of the emergency. (See this Breaking Latest News headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/942430/man-in-mortal-danger-after-co-poisoning-in-a-restaurant-in-dendermonde-tbtb&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzkzNTI4MjQ1MjA5Njg1MDI4MzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1AmQmcKAKlwyYsqcJUpeLX"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Man in mortal danger after carbon monoxide poisoning in Flemish restaurant</span></b></a> <br /><b>The Brussels Times </b><br />The incident occurred on Monday night, with other patrons also reporting feeling unwell, according to local emergency services. CO leakage was caused by a faulty heater and inadequate ventilation, clarified the Oost Fire Brigade. (See The Brussels Times headline link)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors in many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-73198886702947185022024-02-27T03:48:00.000-07:002024-02-27T03:48:15.407-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 27, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>27</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner</i>.” </span><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/paul-ricoeur-quotes" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Paul Ricoeur</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div></div><div><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Ricoeur"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1913-2005 Paul Ricoeur <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BZ5NNs8bA"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Louis Clark</b> (1947-2021) "<i>Can't Stop the Classics</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 27, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/24144039.ngn-reports-61-per-cent-rise-cumbria-carbon-monoxide-cases/%3Fref%3Drss&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTQxMDAxMTIxNTQ2NDk5ODYxNTMyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1xASY9xZQNUgwNmsBuK9qX" style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">NGN reports 61 per cent rise in Cumbria carbon monoxide cases</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Westmorland Gazette</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">United Kingdom - Northern Gas Networks (NGN), which deals with these cases, confirms more than 600 emergency visits have occurred in the past three years, following calls to the National Gas Emergency helpline. - NGN suggests this rise aligns with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and is urging residents to make sure that CO alarms are correctly installed on each floor and to prioritise annual checks on boilers and appliances. (See this Westmorland Gazette headline link)</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nwonewswatch.com/local-news/ontario-government-dismisses-opseu-health-and-safety-recommendations-8359984&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTY0Nzg5MzI5NTcwMDc0MzEzMzUyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3P3FyCITqm3LvYM6GQKgQM"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ontario government dismisses OPSEU health and safety recommendations </span></b></a> <br /><b>Northwest Ontario News </b><br />“In my research into these, in these scientific articles, particulate matter is so dangerous -- because it's so small -- that it goes through the alveoli into the bloodstream and then can go to any part of the body and infect any organ. What's particularly fascinating is that something carcinogenic like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which the government acknowledges are dangerous, well forest fires are the number one producer of these chemicals.” (See more at this Northwest Ontario News headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-02-26-three-found-dead-in-durban-home-in-suspected-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-from-generator/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjAzOTQwMjU1OTA2Mzk2Njk1MjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw315od4Ce7laOdunkgy4UAw"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Three found dead in Durban home in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning from generator </span></b></a> <br /><b>TimesLIVE.com </b><br />South Africa -The lifeless body of the family’s puppy was also found. - The fire department conducted a thorough examination of the premises and identified a generator in the home as the likely cause of carbon monoxide poisoning, which resulted in the deaths. (See more at this TimesLIVE.com headline link)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors in many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-14453528662233284112024-02-26T04:03:00.000-07:002024-02-26T04:03:37.871-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 26, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>26</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/elizabeth-bibesco-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Elizabeth Bibesco</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.howold.co/person/elizabeth-bibesco/biography"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1897-1945 Elizabeth Bibesco <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbRiFngsxUk"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Paul Cotton</b> (1943-2021) "<i>Into the Mystic</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 26, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less than you could be about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/25/cecil-county-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTA1MzcyMTg0ODg3NjczNjEyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2oLQB_gyNteOBXEQnoR5DF"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Man dies from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a> <br /><b>Baltimore Sun </b><br />A man died and a woman was in critical condition after they suffered apparent carbon monoxide poisoning Saturday in Cecil County. - The home had no electricity, a strong odor of kerosene inside, and soot-covered walls, the fire marshal said. - A kerosene heater was the only source of heat, the heater’s chimney was not seated properly, and the fuel inside had run dry, the fire marshal said, and investigators believe carbon monoxide caused by the incomplete combustion of the kerosene heater contributed to the death and hospitalization. (See this Baltimore Sun headline link)</div><div><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://pilotweb.aero/news/caa-proposes-active-carbon-monoxide-detectors-in-piston-aircraft/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTQ3MjcxMzk4MjYxMzkzODkxNDUyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0Og7atrN09K8i9N4mLtnrT" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CAA proposes active carbon monoxide detectors in piston aircraft - Pilot</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">pilotweb.aero</b><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.52px;">“As recent accidents have shown, carbon monoxide entering from aircraft heating systems is a risk to pilots and passengers, but one that can be mitigated with a cheap and easily available bit of kit,” explained Michael Macdonald, Head of General Aviation at the CAA. (Civil Aviation Authority) (See this pilotweb.com headline link)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors on many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-48419984542719882032024-02-25T04:48:00.000-07:002024-02-25T04:48:22.917-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 25, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>25</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">“<i>Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place</i>.” </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/antonio-damasio-quotes" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Antonio Damasio</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a></div><a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/antonio-damasio/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(b. 1944 Antonio Damasio <b>bio link</b>)</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-LULDiJxk"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>George Harrison</b> (1943-2001) "<i>Isn't It a Pity</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 25, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.fltimes.com/news/waterloo-dollar-general-store-remains-closed-for-carbon-monoxide-leak/article_2f747282-d1aa-11ee-935c-1bab606fb0ec.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQ3MjcxMzk4MjYxMzkzODkxNDUyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0I-o3hto2d4pHpwyAXZPJQ"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Waterloo Dollar General store remains closed for carbon monoxide leak</span></b></a> <br /><b>Finger Lakes Times </b><br />Waterloo, NY - The Dollar General store at 1328 Waterloo-Geneva Road remains closed after it was ordered shut down Jan. 15 because its HVAC system was leaking carbon monoxide. (See and watch for updates at Finger Lakes Times news link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/home-and-garden/inexpensive-carbon-monoxide-alarm-can-be-a-lifesaver-3006300/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ3MjcxMzk4MjYxMzkzODkxNDUyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1D884PM3mXdC_0pcbA9Tco"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Inexpensive carbon monoxide alarm can be a lifesaver</span></b></a> <br /><b>Las Vegas Review-Journal </b><br />Would I be smart to install a carbon monoxide alarm? - You’d be very smart. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 420 people die in the U.S. annually from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, and more than 100,000 people in the U.S. visit the emergency room each year because of accidental CO poisoning. An inexpensive alarm could help prevent this. - Carbon monoxide pollutes the air inside your home. It is absorbed into your bloodstream, reducing the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. (See this Las Vegas Review-Journal headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://pilotweb.aero/news/caa-proposes-active-carbon-monoxide-detectors-in-piston-aircraft/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTQ3MjcxMzk4MjYxMzkzODkxNDUyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0Og7atrN09K8i9N4mLtnrT"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CAA proposes active carbon monoxide detectors in piston aircraft - Pilot </span></b></a> <br /><b>pilotweb.aero </b><br />“As recent accidents have shown, carbon monoxide entering from aircraft heating systems is a risk to pilots and passengers, but one that can be mitigated with a cheap and easily available bit of kit,” explained Michael Macdonald, Head of General Aviation at the CAA. (Civil Aviation Authority) (See this pilotweb.com headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors on many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><u style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u></p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-22095727414085228602024-02-24T05:03:00.000-07:002024-02-24T05:03:05.543-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 24, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>24</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”</span></div><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/george-william-curtis-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>George William Curtis</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-William-Curtis"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(1824-1892 George William Curtis <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6xDqwjkQQ"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Nicky Hopkins</b> (1944-1994) piano with Jeff Beck "<i>Girl From Mill Valley</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 24, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://hoodline.com/2024/02/atlanta-high-rise-residents-evacuated-due-to-carbon-monoxide-leak-after-prior-fire-incident/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA1NjQ5MzIwMjA5MjMwNTYzNDEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1srtpL9lIWELZCIf6zD_jQ"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Atlanta High-Rise Residents Evacuated Due to Carbon Monoxide Leak After Prior Fire Incident </span></b></a> <br /><b>Hoodline.com </b><br />Atlanta, Georgia - The high-rise on Piedmont Avenue, which had already been the site of a fire earlier in the week, became a scene of urgency as officials responded to the invisible threat late Wednesday night. - The drama did not just unfold overnight. Just the previous day, the same building was evacuated after the first three floors were imperiled by a fire, as stated by WSB-TV. Residents above the fourth floor were advised to shelter in place while firefighters battled the blaze. - This fire, as it turned out, was the cause of the carbon monoxide issue that later imperiled the lives of the tower's inhabitants. (See this Hoodline.com headline news link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.timesherald.com/2024/02/23/2-found-dead-in-what-pottstown-officials-call-a-hoarder-home/amp/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTA1NjQ5MzIwMjA5MjMwNTYzNDEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3z9wZhEeKyeV8unSptdhPW"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2 found dead in what Pottstown officials call a 'hoarder home</span></b>'</a> <br /><b>The Times Herald </b><br />Both deceased were sitting on the floor of the house, which has no heat or electricity and “is known to be obtaining power from gas generators” in the basement… Police said in addition to two generators, there were “multiple heaters inside the property.” (See The Times Herald headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.kcci.com/article/mystery-smell-illness-students-staff-marshalltown-high-school/46938174&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAwMzgzOTc1NzAzMzIzMDY4NzIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw28vhJcIostGBqKNMYhmBFn"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mystery smell at an Iowa high school could have caused students and staff to get sick</span></b></a> <br /><b>KCCI </b><br />Marshalltown, Iowa - According to a statement from Unity Point Waterloo, "Marshalltown ER has treated 14 patients for symptoms consistent with carbon monoxide exposure." - Scales says it was due to a smell from construction in the courtyard. - He was not the only one feeling its effect. "Very many people are going home sick with headaches and migraines and stuff like that," Scales said. (See this KCCI headline link) <br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/2024/02/23/tobermory-family-saved-by-carbon-monoxide-alarm/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU2MTQ3MDAzOTM0MzAyMDA1NTMyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw16juXg5e9bIf7YvvCKAbOD"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tobermory Family Saved By Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></a> <br /><b>Bayshore Broadcasting</b><br />(The Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire Department) … say on Thursday night, a family in Tobermory was alerted to high levels of carbon monoxide in their home by a working carbon monoxide alarm. - The fire department says it saved their lives. (See this Bayshore Broadcasting headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors on many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207939526458122881.post-19174126227133979042024-02-23T04:47:00.000-07:002024-02-23T04:47:23.224-07:00Carbon Monoxide News February 23, 2024 – posts frequently updated<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every Day - Carbon Monoxide Safety Education Day - </span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Measurement is education at its' best.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> - <span style="color: red;">Some</span> <span style="color: red;">Early symptoms of CO poisoning include poor decision making & confusion. </span>Don't be stupid, get an alarm.</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6042141875012096930" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Learn as you alert - carry a personal CO monitor.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">CO from a generator is not a silent killer, it is loud.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> Why choose to breathe combustion gas?</span></b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Cooking with gas stove controversy? <span style="color: red;">Test your own air.</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Start with low-level CO monitor; <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><a href="https://escogroup.org/cosa/tpi780.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Low level CO monitor link</span></span></a></span></b></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Or, you may become disabled at the onset of a fire in your home or business by the carbon monoxide being produced and be unable to get out as the fire spreads and intensifies. Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system and that all your other detectors are operating correctly.</span><div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #0d00ff;"><b>If text is in Blue it is a source link to a news article, document or video; EXCEPT THIS ONE. </b>Posted links are not edited for grammar errors or regional spelling differences.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(Daily news links a short scroll below)</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can learn from others’ mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning. </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Archives posts start with December 31 each year -</span><span style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2023/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2023</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span></span></span><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2022/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2022</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2021/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2021</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">- </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>2020</b></span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2020/" style="color: #33aaff; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"> </a><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2019/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2019</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2018/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2018</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2017/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2017</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(275) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2016/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2016</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(366) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2015/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2015</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2014/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2014</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2013/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2013</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(365) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2012</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(362) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2011/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2011</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(344) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2010/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2010</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(87) - </span><a class="post-count-link" href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2009/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 12px; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">2009</span></b><span style="color: #33aaff;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"></span><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;">(12) Scroll down through each year or use Web View and the menu bar on the right.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span class="post-count" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: -15px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The science you don't know may harm you or others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know where the fire extinguisher is and how it works? Is there an emergency escape plan to reach exits?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>We are all students of carbon monoxide and fire safety.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Are you content not knowing how much carbon monoxide is in the air you breathe? </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> (This is a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Yes</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">No</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> answer)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">What is the risk of being nauseous from carbon monoxide?</b><br style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Answer -</span></b> You have been. (You will be again.)</div></div><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 700;">Pollution, a known a killer – unfortunately a product of economies</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Daily Quote and Song</u></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - (birthday (<b>February</b> <b>23</b></span><b>, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">) people today)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“<i>In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson</i>.”</span></div> <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/tom-bodett-quotes"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Tom Bodett</b> sourced through Brainy Quote</span></a><br /><a href="https://biographyscoop.com/tom-bodett/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(b. 1955 Tom Bodett <b>bio link</b>)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGGF5Z51W0"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Rusty Young</b> (1946-2021) "<i>Listen To Your Heart</i>" YouTube <b>music link</b></span></a><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>--------------------------------------</i>----</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Carbon Monoxide (CO) moves through a building like fog through a forest, except you can't see it</i>. CO is a toxic gas. Bob Dwyer</b><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13.2px;"></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">World-Wide Reports - Pollution and Health Effects- Fire Safety</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon Monoxide News Links</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">February 23, 2024</span></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </b><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(International Spelling; no edits)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>Car</u></span><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">bon Monoxide Safety Training - Saving some lives but not the dying</u></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Low-level CO Alarm - "Faster than a sniffing nose" - Get one now!</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Give a gift of life, the gift of a Carbon Monoxide Alarm</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please make sure you have the earliest possible detection system.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>You are learning less about carbon monoxide if you are not measuring carbon monoxide everywhere you go.</i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbko.com/2024/02/22/brdhd-explains-dangers-signs-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTUxMTEzNDc1MDg0NDQ5ODMxOTEyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3fxTg6ko2jgNkPavWuVZnK"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">BRDHD explains the dangers and signs of carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a> <br /><b>WBKO </b><br />Bowling Green, Kentucky - Carbon Monoxide or CO is an odorless and colorless gas that forms when natural gas is burned in an enclosed space for a long time. - “It comes from anything that’s burning gas of some sort, whether it be gasoline in the car, or natural gas, or propane, that’s hooked up to the home for stoves, fireplaces, anything of that nature,” said Barren River District Health Department branch manager of Disaster Preparedness and Response, Jana Rheconway. - … more than 100,000 people visit the emergency room, and more than 14,000 people are hospitalized, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/co/faqs.htm"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>CDC</b></span></a>. - One of the things you can do to protect yourself and your family, in your home, is by installing a Carbon monoxide monitor. (See more at this WBKO headline link)<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Know your alarms and detectors.</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">Remember! The batteries used in electric golf carts can emit a hydrogen dominant gas while charging, particularly if over-charging. The sensors on many, if not most carbon monoxide alarms and detectors are cross-sensitive to this hydrogen rich gas and will become what is known as a false positive alert. Hydrogen gas is also a hazardous gas to breathe, so it is a good thing the alerts went off and the source was revealed. But this was not CO (Carbon Monoxide).</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKgAPmlC-7WIJ5kSJE46nTXEoYkEH6fqEY5kYpIoF1DUio5yiw2gvBJ_qsm9mtgClKxIs1Cb_4YmmCe9R9Y9seO7K5JqBCFaWta9UbEjtnHdH68LyauA_CIgL6phxSWjJAPfsaSfSW6CSVXTrTz53akuYGjrAAQHsRC2tlISdlkazpXFZfv98G4HGUbak=w21-h20" width="21" /></div></div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/18/two-northeast-charlotte-apartments-being-ventilated-after-golf-cart-battery-leak/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAyMzM5ODE2NDg1MjQwNTA1ODkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3HEvKqg0oaVCTCXmHi5bzd" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Two northeast Charlotte apartments being ventilated after golf cart battery leak</span></b></a><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">WBTV</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;">(See what is reported at this WBTV headline link)</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.27.542565v4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTQ5NTI3MjQ5MDQyNjAxMTAzNjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0b3wUyRNpqK-FvjVaSJadU" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 14.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Neuroprotection of low dose carbon monoxide in Parkinson's disease models</b></span></a><br /><b style="font-size: 14.52px;">bioRxiv.org</b><br /><span style="font-size: 14.52px;">Paradoxically, cigarette smoking is associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). This led us to hypothesize that carbon monoxide (CO) levels,,,, (See this bioxRxiv.org headline link)</span><br /><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">--- </u><u style="color: red; font-size: 14.52px;">---</u></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red;">Two things that make carbon monoxide (CO) a hazard:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. CO is generated in concentrations high enough to harm,</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. There is a way for CO to escape into breathable air.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If one of these exists, you are 50% enjoined with the hazard.</span><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A sealed combustion system is still a hazard if it generates high, harmful levels of CO. (A sealed combustion system relies on air for combustion to be drawn from an outside source directly into the pre-fire, fuel/air mixing zone and not from inside the system placement zone. The combustion exhaust is then exited to outside areas via a vent or chimney feature.)</span><br /><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proper installation, proper maintenance with testing will help assure a combustion system is not generating high, harmful levels of the toxic gas carbon monoxide, and that it is not escaping into breathable air. Carbon monoxide alarms are always recommended when a combustion system is in use. A low-level CO alarm is preferred as it will alert at levels before more harmful levels are most often detected. Don’t allow poor health symptoms to be your alarm. (COSA)</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">(Carbon Monoxide)</span><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 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. May you be safe in the new year 2024.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><b style="color: red; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---</u></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Who did you say is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>HAVE YOU VERIFIED YOUR SAFETY ALARMS & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">----</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://abc7.com/traveling-risk-danger-travel-safety-hotels-airbnb/14172967/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTQyMTI3ODY2MjYzOTI2NTkyOTkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qwajhNjYlcjt26hEbt7XT" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This hidden traveling danger can be lethal. Experts offer a simple, life-saving solution</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">ABC7</b><br style="font-size: 14.52px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">In the past 20 years, more than a thousand injuries from carbon monoxide leaks in U.S. hotels have been reported. <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a> tracks carbon monoxide incidents at popular places travelers stay. - While smoke alarms are normally required in every hotel room by law, there is no such law for carbon monoxide detectors, nor are they required by Airbnb, which has seen 10 carbon monoxide deaths in Chile and Mexico in the past five years. (See this ABC7 headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">THANK YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENCE</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/23/2730501/0/en/Lifesaving-Alternative-Will-Support-Hotels-Restaurants-in-Warning-of-Carbon-Monoxide.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lifesaving Alternative Will Support Hotels, Restaurants in Warning of Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>globenewswire.com</b><br />Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE) published its updated standard for carbon monoxide alarms — UL 2034, Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms — expanding coverage to non-dwelling units, namely motels, restaurants, and other indoor locations that do not have more sophisticated detection systems installed. - The change also aligns with the 2024 International Fire Code revision that requires carbon monoxide detection for commercial occupancies…. - ULSE welcomes proposals to update or develop new standards. - <b><span style="color: red;">The change to UL 2034 was proposed by Kris Hauschildt</span></b>, founder of <a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a>, which she established after her parents, Daryl and Shirley Jenkins, lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, N.C. (See more at this Globe Newswire headline link) </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carbon Monoxide (CO) can permanently injure and kill.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who will be next? It is a certainty, it will be someone.</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Protect yourself and others.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Are your decisions, plans and actions based on safety first? Or are you willing to risk all consequences?</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – Warning for all Seasons</span></b></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Pay Attention to Prevailing Wind and Where Exhaust May Blow</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/19/doctor-warns-about-dangers-generators-due-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2Mzk0OTM0NTIxODAxNTc0MDkyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw2bAiszoV8Nuy5aKovyYjdy" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Doctor warns about dangers of generators due to carbon monoxide poisoning</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">KSLA</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">“If you are purchasing generators, the number one number one rule is, do not run them in your house. That is a for sure way to get carbon monoxide poisoning,” he explained. “Don’t put them in any enclosed space close to your house like a back porch, side porch [or] front porch. You want it at least 20 feet away from the house. And you don’t want it around anything that could bring exhaust into the house like a fan.” Dr. Steven Kitchings, the director Willis Knighton’s Hyperbaric and Wound Care Center (See more at this KSLA headline news link)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Be Prepared Everywhere – Know Where Carbon Monoxide Can Originate</span></b><br />The most easily identifiable symptom of emerging carbon monoxide poisoning is when any fuel burning combustion system is in use. (Like automobiles, trucks, gas appliances and fireplaces, stoves, water heaters (geysers), cookers, barbeques, airplanes, generators, furnaces, space heaters, boats, campfires and…) <b><span style="color: red;">It can happen to you. Get proper carbon monoxide alarm protection, the earlier the alarming notification the better off you and others may be.</span></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Library/diseasesconditions/Adult/Skin/167,carbon_monoxide_blood&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSOTg5ODM1OTE0ODk2MDIwMzgyMhowMTJkOTBhMjY3MTkzZjAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AOvVaw2Qt8h7aGGh61qQAm8P85Oz" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide (Blood)</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Brigham and Women's Hospital</b><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">You may need this test if your healthcare provider thinks you have CO poisoning. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Headache - Chest pain - Altered mental status and confusion - Nausea and vomiting – Dizziness – Weakness. - - Severe poisoning can cause nervous system symptoms, such as – Seizures – Coma. - - Carbon monoxide poisoning can be hard to recognize in very young children. For example, a child may merely appear fussy and not want to eat. (See more at this Brigham and Women's Hospital headline link)</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Carbon Monoxide Displaces Oxygen and Can be Overwhelming.</span></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; text-decoration-line: underline;">-----------------</span> Hold-over headlines</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">How safe are you when sleeping away from home?</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/about/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Jenkins Foundation</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">The Jenkins Foundation was formed in memory of Daryl and Shirley Jenkins who both lost their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning in a hotel room in Boone, North Carolina, on April 16, 2013. (Visit this web site)</span></div></div><br /></div><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17572307/" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon monoxide poisoning at motels, hotels, and resorts</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">National Library of Medicine - Lindell K Weaver</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">PubMed</b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (nih.gov)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Poisoning has occurred at motels, hotels, and resorts. Congressional mandate requires smoke alarms in all guest rooms; however, smoke alarms do not detect CO. (See more at this PubMed headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/carbonmonoxide-factsheet.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Fact Sheet</span></b></a><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA.gov</b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">… you can inhale carbon monoxide right along with gases that you can smell and not even know that CO is present. - CO is a common industrial hazard (See more at this OSHA.gov headline link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Wear your own personal CO monitor if employer doesn’t outfit you</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/trade/02072023&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTMTU2NDU3MDA3MzI0NDYzMTgyMTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3Mn5TjrqQI9LXvcO0RUz8P" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As winter surges, OSHA reminds employers of carbon monoxide risks when using portable generators, other equipment indoors</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges employers to take appropriate precautions to protect workers from carbon monoxide exposures in enclosed spaces. (See this OSHA headline news link)</span><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t wait to feel sickly; get a low-level CO detector.</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/#" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why Wait for the Alarm or Injury? Don't - YouTube</span></b></a><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pro-active carbon monoxide measurement coupled with heightened awareness regarding the toxic gas sources can make for life changing moments. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y03lhYHug" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">How Much Carbon Monoxide is too Much to Breathe - YouTube</span></b></a><br /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide or CO is a toxic gas and acts like a poison with early regarded symptoms that can include dizziness, headache, confusion, head stuffiness, fatigue, upper respiratory irritation, breathing struggles, heart rate changes, nausea and vomiting. Too much CO is a quick killer. (CO Safety Series - Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Always measure air you breathe - the classroom is everywhere</b></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Be aware and protected</span></b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/d7PGLcuKDnY" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Flu-like symptoms and the health effects of carbon monoxide exposure COSABD7m34s</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> - Are your symptoms flu-like? Don’t get lost in the symptoms – measure carbon monoxide. No matter what you do for a living you should know about the health impacts of carbon monoxide exposure and what your role in the prevention of poisoning. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety - Classroom Discussions (Video - Classroom Discussion - March 2020)</span></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Incomplete combustion</span></b> can have an odor and contain "odorless carbon monoxide". This “aldehyde” smell is often mistaken for a gas leak. Know that CO is in that smell. How much? You better be measuring.</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> (Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety)</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LEO3_dSWxDY" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When is it best for me to be CO alarmed?</span></b></a><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">COSA</b><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">CO alarms are lab tested with certified carbon monoxide gas to help demonstrate delayed response vs rapid response to the toxic gas in this 15-minute classroom tutorial. Always asking the question "How soon would you like notification that your health is at risk from carbon monoxide exposure?"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If you’re not measuring carbon monoxide I am not teaching well. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We can accomplish and seek solutions through daily research and measurement. What is the point of teaching if we don’t practice what we teach? Without measurement add darkness to the description of "The Silent Killer". "We are all students gathering information when it comes to carbon monoxide safety." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety contact - </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">bobdwyer@cosafety.org</span></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fires" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Home Fires | Ready.gov</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.ready.gov/home-fire" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.ready.gov/home-fire</span></a><br /><u><span style="color: red;"><b>Fire is FAST!</b></span></u> In less than 30 seconds a small flame can turn into a major fire. It only takes minutes for thick black smoke to fill a house or for it to be engulfed in flames.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is HOT!</span></b></u> Heat is more threatening than flames. Room temperatures in a fire can be 100 degrees at floor level and rise to 600 degrees at eye level. Inhaling this super-hot air will scorch your lungs and melt clothes to your skin.<br /><u><b><span style="color: red;">Fire is DARK!</span></b></u> Fire starts bright, but quickly produces black smoke and complete darkness.<br /><b><u><span style="color: red;">Fire is DEADLY!</span></u></b> Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths, exceeding burns by a 3-to-1 ratio. (Find out more at this Ready.gov headline news link)</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Please read the alarm information</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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), <b>it is a high-level alarm</b> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Know when your fire department and emergency responders</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">You'd prefer a </b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>low-level</b></span></span><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> carbon monoxide detector</b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do not take risks with carbon monoxide.</span></b><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Help prevent injuries and deaths;</span></b> don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY - </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The best way to verify your CO safety device is working is to use certified test gas</span></b><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span></div></span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The only way to know if there is no CO in your car is to measure</span></b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note - low level carbon monoxide measurement is best</span></b><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"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</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">How Many Fires Did You Start Today? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Population growth & density = risks</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">World Population by Year</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">Student exercise</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Think of the action “fire” and then compare your birth year (or as far back as this chart goes) with the current population. How many fires are there going in the world? Fires spawn heat. Fires spawn combustion gases. How many fires are there? How many fires do you start or share in (even electric if your electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired generation plant miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Fires include heating air and water for skin warmth – heating for cooking – heating for bathing – heating for work transportation (cars trucks, trains, planes, boats, rockets) – heating for recreation extras (vehicles) – heating for funeral pyres – heating for candle ceremonies (including ambiance) – heating for melting earth minerals – heating for burning garbage heating for running errands and activities (kidding, driving errands) and many more uses for heating. That’s a lot of combustion gas in the air, collectively. (Bob Dwyer)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Predicting when an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning will occur</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> is not something anyone can do, but some circumstances make it foreseeable that it will occur. This is why so many of the CO safety and awareness statements are redundant.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="color: red;"><b>The fact is, some people just don’t get it, don’t understand it,</b></span><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;"> have no respect for the gas or, who knows why? Maybe it is because "accidents happen to someone else". But it is foreseeable that you will read about deaths occurring in this news blog again, despite the collective efforts around the world to prevent death from carbon monoxide poisoning.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/coguide.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Responding to Residential Carbon Monoxide Incidents - Guidelines for Fire and Other Emergency Response Personnel (cpsc.gov)</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Does everyone in your household know how much carbon monoxide makes you sick but is not enough to kill you? Did you know carbon monoxide is generated early and all the time a building is on fire?</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">NOTE: Listed U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">VISUAL DISPLAY:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Must not display under 30PPM in normal operation</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">AT 70, 150 & 400 PPM display must be accurate within plus or minus 30%</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">SENSITIVITY TESTING:</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Resist alarming first times shown, must by second shown time</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">70PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM ... [BETWEEN 60 _ 240 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">150PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 5PPM] ... [10 - 50 MINUTES]</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">400PPM [PLUS OR MINUS 10PPM ... [4 - 15 MINUTES]</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.osha.gov/publications/bytopic/carbon-monoxide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzAxNDEwMzgyOTIyNjI3MDM4NDIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF8FrE7nmqElCXBBJHgzWFMPUI4Pw" style="color: #2288bb; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Topic - Carbon Monoxide | Occupational Safety and Health Administration</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">OSHA</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning QuickCard™ - Portable Generators (<b><span style="color: red;">See PDF links</span></b> at this OSHA headline news link)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Do you know enough</span> </b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go? Take a carbon monoxide detector with you when in your car for safer travel.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2600ff;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>COSA – CO Alarm Video</b> - watch and think of those you care about<br /><br /><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">MEASURE or LET CARBON MONOXIDE GET THE BEST OF YOU</b></div></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">"You can't measure COVID 19 in the air but you can sure detect and measure carbon monoxide. Get an early warning. Get low-level CO protection and the start of a house fire may be detected before smoke and smoke alarms activate." Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm (most are)</span></b> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Hotel/Motel – Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></b></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thejenkinsfoundation.com/travelsafe/hotel-co-incident-data/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNTY1MTc3NTU0NjUwOTgxNTE4NzIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFs6qBHUovkWFp3lWKKZSfvco7tyw" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Hotel CO Incident Data</span></b></a><br /><b>The Jenkins Foundation</b><br />Dozens of carbon monoxide (CO) incidents occur in U.S. hotels every year. Many of these incidents result in unnecessary harm to hotel guests, (See more of this Jenkins Foundation Data Report)</div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">VIDEOS FOR THE CLASSROOM (wherever that is)</span></b><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/S76UxN2Z1mc" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0015ff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--Prologue; Teaching CO Safety segment, 0007BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide infiltrated a hair salon business and prompted investigators into action. Decisions, testing and precautions in place, the business reopened. Help vitalize critical thinking for the unexpected with this classroom presentation, <b><span style="color: red;">Part 1</span></b>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/gYmQzh1z2PM" style="color: #888888; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #000dff;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost--CO Returns; Teaching CO Safety, segment 0008BDCOSA</span></b></a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.2px;">Precautions in place and the business reopened; the carbon monoxide incident appeared to be an anomaly in normal function of a gas water heater. But then, the carbon monoxide ghost let its presence be known, and the investigators are back at it in <b><span style="color: red;">Part 2</span></b> of this classroom presentation.</span><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">PART 3</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5d_Tlhy_9B4" style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hair Salon and the Carbon Monoxide Ghost—Get Out & Stay Out, Part 3--Teaching CO Safety Seg0009</span></b></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The gas water heaters were replaced with electric ones, but the new CO alarms sounded out that the CO ghost had returned. Fresh eyes, more testing and inquiries lead to source identification and the end of this chapter in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Teaching Carbon Monoxide Safety for the Life and Death of it.</b></i></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><u><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Carbon Monoxide</b></span></u></div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What do you do, hope someone else protects you from this toxic gas?</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni48-sZZ6cc" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #0d00ff;">"Taking Carbon Monoxide Seriously" from "CO Safety For Life & Death of it" segment 0006BDCOSA</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(COSA - BD 3 min video)</b><br />Does it take the death of a family member, friend, neighbor or someone famous for us to take carbon monoxide measurement seriously and with more understanding? Yes, unfortunately; for a while perhaps. Fortunately, there are passionate survivors and those who have felt that shocking loss and work towards greater understanding of the impact CO has on our lives. They rally to educate, instigate fund raisers to help supply CO alarms to others and to dialogue with lawmakers and policy influencers regarding laws, ordinances, and the public offering of the alarms. And you, do you have carbon monoxide protection; everywhere?</div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Help Save Lives – Be CO Safe</b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</u></span><br /></b><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span face="" style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">↓</span><b style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There is a lot to learn about carbon monoxide</b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face="" style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt%3Fncid%3D529735944&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU3MTIyMDUzMzY1MDQ5Njg5NjYyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFy7VThk_ZwWg9sx9ReE090CFEZ-g" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</span></b></a></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Intermountain Healthcare</b><br />COHb measurement can rule in CO poisoning but does not have the sensitivity to rule it out on its own. COHb levels do not correlate well with severity of poisoning or outcomes… (Much more at this site; view flashcard) </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZrvg4Td4" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">A Tale of Weatherization at Grandma's House</span></b></a><br /><b>Story adapted by the Building Science Community of Alaska</b><br />How heat, air, and moisture works together to determine your overall home performance level. (Watch this animation - internet dropped via Kousma Insulation)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again.</span></b> 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. We live in combustion based cultures - fire. </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://ohsed.com/home-safety-carbon-monoxide/" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide</span></a></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">HSE, OHSA, OHS</b><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Safeguarding your family and home should be your number one priority at all times, and this is why you must not take chances in any way. - (Read more HSE, OHSA, OHS)</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Don’t let poor health symptoms be your carbon monoxide alarm.</span></b> </div><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Carbon monoxide poisoning often occurs and reoccurs with common, nagging type symptoms and often confuses the sufferer with headache, tiredness or shortness of breath. Diligent measurement for CO is very easy and can help identify the toxic gas in air and perhaps help in the reduction of some poor health symptoms if the sources are removed or repaired. You could measure or you could guess or seek measurement.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please Note:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> "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</span><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">The most recommended CO Alarm in U.S. is a high-level alarm</span></b></div><a href="http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=2034" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard for Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">UL 2034</b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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 (More)</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Please, stop diagnostic errors; start testing for carboxyhemoglobin</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">How much carbon monoxide are you in when in any motor vehicle?</span><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Did you know that many people do not measure the air they breathe?</span></b><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">After prevention there is no greater awareness than measurement. </b><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Awareness leads to quick thinking. Measurement leads to quick action.</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">Do you know enough about carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning to justify never knowing how much is in the air you breathe every day, everywhere you go?”</div><br /><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">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.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u>-------------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your CO alarm may be a high-level alarm</span></b> </div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">READ THE OWNERS MANUAL</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Please note their Listed CO concentration alarm set points</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>And Carbon Monoxide Alarms Are Cross Sensitive to Hydrogen</b></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">This is important to know because if there are charging marine or auto batteries in the spaces in or near your CO alarm, the batteries could be out-gassing hydrogen gas and your alarm may sound. Be aware of this when measuring the air near the charging of electric golf carts and electric forklifts. Hydrogen gas is a dangerous gas in confining spaces but it is not carbon monoxide.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You don't have to wait</b> to see what low, aggravating levels of the poison might be in your home, or anywhere as it is happening. Your safety is up to you. Are you responsible for others?</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;">The following video link appears via You Tube on “BLEVE” search</span></b><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) Demonstration - How it Happens Training Video</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Video</b> - Propane (LPG) tanks of any size can violently compound a structure fire – KEEP THEM OUTSIDE - This is an important notice to pass on to anyone.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Contact</b> - the ESCO Group <a href="https://escogroup.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">https://escogroup.org/</span></b></a> for more information on the CO exam and all their training and written exam certifications. Every item on this site is placed in the efforts to raise awareness to help reduce the impact carbon monoxide has on people.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="font-size: 13.2px;">----------------------------------------------------------------</u></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">--------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others</span></b><br />We have all inhaled carbon monoxide. We are a world of fire users.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">What is in the air you are breathing right now?</span></b><br />What will you be doing today; walking into poison?<br />Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;"><br />You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.</span></b><br />We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Investigate the following video segments to explore low level carbon monoxide measurement.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.jneuro.com/neurology-neuroscience/carbon-monoxide-intoxication-a-case-of-misdiagnosis-with-neuroradiological-follow-up.php%3Faid%3D8701&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTg0MjUwOTkzOTk2NjMwMjEyMDIyGjAxMmQ5MGEyNjcxOTNmMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEZZY4q6aOfxEpwa3gbGmX-pbOlKw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Intoxication</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience</b><br />Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is one of the main causes of poisoning in industrialized countries and it often leads to diagnostic errors…<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563790&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjMwMjI3OTcyMTQ2ODc1Mjk1NTIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1PEFZ01NHxgcx-AqDVb7Loi7AdQ" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide intoxication.</span></b></a><br /><b>nih.gov</b><br />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…<br /><br /><b>JEMS.com</b> - ...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 - <a href="http://www.thesilentkiller.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">www.thesilentkiller.co.uk</span></b></a><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.joe.ie/news/video-this-new-bord-gais-advert-featuring-a-canary-singing-traditional-irish-folk-music-is-something-else/474145&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNjU3OTc2MTkxMDY4MzIzNTQ2NjIaMDEyZDkwYTI2NzE5M2YwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHzl1ODrV5rHNqDhidaF6wwBKuzWA" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide Canary - music link</span></b></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who is responsible for the air you breathe?</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take control inside your homes.</span></span></b><br />-Link to: → <a href="http://cosafety.blogspot.com/2012/09/carbon-monoxide-news-september-26-2012.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">CO alarm standards</span></b></a> –<br />The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:<br />- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours<br />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</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Low Level CO Protection</span></span></b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/cjHUIHtwH0c" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Low-Level Carbon Monoxide Protection and TPI Model 780</span></b></a><br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">COSA - Video</b><br />TPI is a long time sponsor of this CO education effort.<br />When does your carbon monoxide alarm? How do you test it? Are you sure it is responding to carbon monoxide in a safe, timely manner? Do you know much about your carbon monoxide alarm? This Classroom Discussion segment does highlight low-level CO protection with one of our supporter's manufactured product while it helps with CO alarm education. (View video)<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Links that may be of use or interest</span></b><br />- <a href="http://co2now.org/Current-CO2/CO2-Now/Current-Data-for-Atmospheric-CO2.html" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Current Data for Atmospheric CO2</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/CObroforweb.pdf&ei=XP1_UMOUN-T2iwK_2IHABw&usg=AFQjCNGBULGAtkZDGh467BuF-Lcn6ck49Q&sig2=Dp0D5ZufPbFrqJAcpeJH5A" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Federal Aviation Administration CO warning</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://emergencymedicineireland.com/2012/10/smoke-without-fire/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATACOAJAxPC-hAVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=67DNCtRiJVw&usg=AFQjCNHsJMa4enqtgi_YjKEJ06E0N1Kjzw" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon monoxide toxicity</span></b></a>-Emergency Medicine Ireland<br />- <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-protection-research-foundation/reports-and-proceedings/detection-and-signaling/carbon-monoxide-detection&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoATAFOAVAiODYjgVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=v9NDiG5oboE&usg=AFQjCNGAJ5_da33rs2IVeZnBTQoesel5Pg" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Carbon Monoxide detection</span></b></a>- National Fire Protection Association<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">These following links may be of some use to you:</span></b><br />- <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The World Clock - Time Zones</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Earthquake Map</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Which volcanoes are erupting now? - Volcano Discovery</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.census.gov/popclock/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">World population counter</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Animal cameras - variety of locations</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002&utm_source=Email+Created+2012%2F10%2F30%2C+11%3A10+AM&utm_campaign=redcross&utm_medium=email" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">American Red Cross</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://www.heartrescuenow.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heart Rescue using an (AED)</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/files/2013/03/AQI.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution</span></b></a><br />- <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">U.S. Drought Monitor</span></b></a><br /><br />- <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive</span></b></a><br /><br />The following companies are also acknowledged for their support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.</div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><a href="http://www.mahughfire.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mahugh Fire & Safety</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.masimo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Masimo for Pulse CO-Oxymeter</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.escoinst.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">ESCO Institute</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.testproductsintl.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;">TPI - Test Products International</span></b></a></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span><div style="font-size: 13.2px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><u>---------------------------------------------------</u></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><u style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">---------------------------------------------------</u> </p>Bob Dwyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08431440498800594396noreply@blogger.com