July 31, 2011

“Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.”
Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Boaters treated for carbon monoxide
Toledo Blade
JERUSALEM TOWNSHIP — Five people were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning early Saturday morning after staying on a boat in the Cooley Canal Yacht Club in Curtice. Jerusalem Township Fire officials said his department was called to the Yacht Club, ...

Tropical Park Hotel Majorca: Evacuation after tourist dies from gas poisoning
Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter
Nearly 500 holidaymakers have been evacuated from a Spanish hotel after a tourist died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Dozens of Brits were among those moved from the three-star Tropical Park Hotel in Majorca following the ...

July 30, 2011

“My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball ‘way from the bat.”
Satchel Paige (1906-1982)

Gas detector saves family
Annapolis Capital AP VIDEO
A carbon monoxide detector alerted a Harundale family, which got safely out of its home, said Division Chief Michael Cox, a fire department spokesman. Firefighters arrived at 202 Shana Road around 10 pm for a report of a carbon monoxide ... 

Harford County School System Passes on SHCO's Offer for Free Carbon Monoxide ...
Patch.com By Sean Welsh
The Susquehanna Hose Company, here performing a drill with other companies in 2011 at Havre de Grace High School, was rejected in a bid to donate carbon monoxide detectors to Harford County Public Schools. The Harford County Public ...

July 29, 2011

Those who have knowledge don't predict. Those who predict don't have knowledge.” Lao Tzu (BC)

CAMPING AND CARBON MONOXIDE
There was a time when camping meant pitching a tent, building a campfire for cooking, staying warm and socializing; sometimes a sleeping bag and the stars were all that were required. That image has changed to full parking lots that also include small homes on wheels that contain combustion conveniences of electricity, cooking, heating, refrigeration and air conditioning. A COSA note to all campers from tenters and boaters to motor-homers and lodgers everywhere: 
When poisonous carbon monoxide is produced in dangerous concentrations in fire of any kind, including during combustion in liquid fueled electric generators while camping in tents, living & traveling in motor homes and caravans, it has been known to make some people sick or has killed them. Even little stoves & lamps used inside tents have contributed to injury & death.

The common, inexpensive carbon monoxide alarms available on the market and listed as U.L. 2034 (or another country’s equivalent) that are battery operated have been tested to alarm at high levels of CO, beginning at 70 PPM. These may not protect you from low level atmospheres that could be a problem if you have some pre-existing medical condition and were chronically in lower levels, but you have some standard of protection to levels that will kill you as it did to the man named in the first story of today’s posting.

Please read the manufacturer instructions regarding operating temperatures of the U.L. 2034 Listed & tested alarms. Camping temperatures & humidity may interfere with the accuracy of the alarm’s sensing capabilities. You might be better off with a few of these on a camping or lodging trip than perhaps other things allowed for. 

Camper dies from carbon monoxide poisoning due to generator outside
Small world News Service
A camper died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator left running next to his tent, an inquest heard. Tragic Richard Philips, 38, left the petrol motor running to keep warm during the night but was overcome by fumes as he slept. ...

Elderly woman saved from carbon monoxide poisoning
NBC2 News
An 86-year-old woman was saved by two Charlotte County Sheriff's deputies on Thursday night after she began suffering from symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Elaine Sampson of 213 Albatross Road called authorities after she says she smelled fumes, ...

Firefighters Get New Protection from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
WBAY
Slip a clip on your finger, and within seconds it reads the oxygen level in your blood and also how much carbon monoxide is in your blood. We tested at a safe three parts per million. For firefighters responding to a call, though, that number would ...

Pulse CO-oxymeter helps determine oxygen therapy in rescue!
Smoke inhalation victim OK after MFD test for CO2 poisoning
Gulf Breeze News Steve Clark/Special to GBN
A Panama City man visiting relatives in Gulf Breeze was airlifted to a Mobile, Ala., hospital Sunday after inhaling dangerous levels of carbon monoxide in a house fire. Alan Zuro, 53, was visiting his sister Carol Monroe's ...

Call for new law after gas death
Inside Housing
A coroner has called on the government to change health and safety legislation after a social housing tenant died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a newly built block of flats. Maria Ighodalo, a tenant of 67000-home London & Quadrant, died following a ...

July 28, 2011

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education”.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Carbon monoxide detectors available through COG grant
Pittsburgh Post Gazette By Annie Tubbs 
After Homestead Mayor Betty Esper was sickened by a carbon monoxide leak in her home last year, she decided she wanted to make others aware of the importance of having carbon monoxide detectors. …did not have a carbon monoxide detector, though her tenant's detector went off after they all felt "woozy." COSA Notes: It is a good thing there was an alarm in the building. However, people should be alerted to carbon monoxide before they feel “woozy”.

Coroner warns of gas heater dangers
Sydney Morning Herald
Consumers should be reminded of the potential dangers associated with gas heaters after a security guard died from carbon monoxide poisoning, a coroner says. NSW Deputy State Coroner Paul MacMahon said the source of the carbon monoxide (CO) was a gas ...

July 27, 2011

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Carbon monoxide sends 21 to hospital
Norman Transcript By Andrew Knittle
NORMAN — Seventeen guests staying at Sooner Legends Inn and Suites were rushed to the hospital late Monday night after breathing in toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Another four checked themselves into the ...

July 26, 2011

“I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.”
Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Carbon monoxide sickens 11 people at Rockville apartment building; none in ...
Washington Post By AP
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County fire officials say eleven residents of a Rockville apartment building have been sickened by carbon monoxide. Assistant Fire Chief Scott Graham says firefighters were called to the 1200 block of First Street ...

Bethany man, 80, dies from carbon monoxide
Bethany Beach Wave
Joseph Manuel died of carbon monoxide poisoning, possibly from leaving his new Ford Escape running in the garage, police said. The CO levels in the house were literally off the charts -- the fire company's detectors didn't go high enough for an exact ...

Six found dead in gas poisoning tragedy
The Local.de
A family of six found dead in their Berlin apartment appear to have been killed by accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, state prosecutors announced on Tuesday. A 27-year-old mother, her four young children, and a 40-year-old man who was the woman's ...

Councilor wants delay in Lafarge burning plan
Tulsa World
For example, Turner claims that the carbon monoxide output would increase 40 times, going from 6.7 tons per year to 266. But Bachmann said Turner hasn't read the chart correctly and that the carbon monoxide will increase only by 6.7 tons. is going from ...

A breath of compressed air
Plant Services
“But we make vehicles, so, despite warning signs posted around our compressor rooms, very often idling vehicles cause our carbon monoxide alarms to ring regularly.” Contaminants that could affect the health of breathing air users include oil aerosols, ...

July 25, 2011

“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”  James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

Employee Hospitalized After Carbon Monoxide Scare
Patch.com By MaryJo Kurtz
Elevated levels of carbon monoxide have been attributed to an oven at Dunkin' Donuts on North Main Street.  One person was taken to the hospital as a precaution after elevated levels of carbon were found this afternoon at the Dunkin' ...