Friday, March 11, 2011

March 11, 2011

“Your silence will not protect you.” Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

NOTE: This first article out of Manchester contains dangerous and misleading information about when “most CO detectors” alarm.
REMEMBER the Winston Churchill quote “ A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth gets its’ pants on.”
Fire-Rescue-EMS responds to carbon monoxide incident
Reminder Newspapers
By Martha Marteney - Staff Writer
Manchester Fire-Rescue-EMS responded to a second serious carbon monoxide incident of the winter season, which resulted in two adults and one child being transported to Manchester Memorial Hospital. ...

Jail kitchen staff, inmates treated for carbon monoxide poisoning 
The Herald Journal
A dozen inmates and three staff members at the Cache County Jail were treated Thursday afternoon for carbon monoxide poisoning after a cooking appliance in the jail's kitchen malfunctioned. Jail Lt. Matt Bilodeau said a staff member working in the ...

Family of six overcome by carbon monoxide in Winnipeg home  Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg fire department says a family of six had to be taken to hospital after they were exposed to carbon monoxide in their home. A company monitoring a carbon monoxide detector in the house had called for help. ...

OREGON
Deadline looms for CO alarms 
Albany Democrat Herald
Steve Whippo of PM Property Managment in Albany shows a carbon monoxide detector he is installing in his rentals. (David Patton/Democrat-Herald) Oregon has been working to save people from carbon monoxide (CO), and an important date in that drive is ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 
Lincoln News Messenger
After about ten days of this we began to wonder why we were not getting better, so we called the Fire Dept. who came to our house to test for carbon monoxide. Their meters did not register any carbon monoxide, but as they were leaving, they suggested ...

7 Children Die of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Smoke Inhalation in Pennsylvania Fire  IBTimes Hong Kong
Seven children died Tuesday evening from carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation after a fire engulfed a home in a central Pennsylvania farming town, according to a local coroner. "It's just a terrible, terrible tragedy. Seven young children. ...

Protect yourself and your family from carbon monoxide poisoning
Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser
By Special to the Times Colorless, odorless and tasteless, carbon monoxide is a toxic gas that can cause serious health problems even at low levels of exposure. Ensuring that carbon monoxide never enters your home is the first step in protecting ...

MEDICAL
Carbon monoxide prevents hepatic mitochondrial membrane permeabilization
7thSpace Interactive
Low concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) protect hepatocytes against apoptosis and confers cytoprotection in several models of liver. Mitochondria are key organelles in cell death control via their membrane permeabilization and the release of ...