March 16, 2011

“Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.” 
Samuel L. Jackson (1948 –

8th Grader from Hawaii Wins Grand Prize in CPSC's Carbon Monoxide Poster Contest 
NEWS from CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Finalists from California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Greensboro police rescue children from gas-filled home 
Greensboro News & Record By Dioni L. Wise
GREENSBORO — Police credit a quick-thinking neighbor with saving three children left alone in a home filled with near-lethal levels of carbon monoxide on Monday night. But Essam Yousef said officers performed true heroics by breaking ...

Protecting Yourself From Carbon Monoxide 
WFMY News 2
Oak Ridge, NC -- After three children were found semi-conscious from carbon monoxide exposure in Greensboro, it's important to make sure you know what to look for and do at your house that could save your life. Carbon monoxide is a silent killer ...

Peru Mall opens back up after carbon monoxide leak 
LaSalle News Tribune
By Jeff Dankert Peru Mall opened back up at 2:30 pm after closing at 11 am because of a carbon monoxide leak, which sent more than 12 people to the hospital with headaches, Peru police chief Doug Bernabei said. By 12:15 pm the leak had been detected ...

Bid to cut carbon monoxide deaths 
Belfast Telegraph
All new homes will have to be fitted with carbon monoxide alarms under reforms expected to be announced at the Assembly. Finance Minister Sammy Wilson is poised to announce the change in building regulations. The move, which it is understood will be ...

Pensioner taken to Addenbrooke's with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning 
Cambridge News
An 84-year-old man has been taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. Essex Fire Service was called just after 9am to Walden Road, Littlebury, and on arrival firefighters found excessive smoke on the ground floor of the ...

Out of heating fuel panic often triggers this kind of poisoning.
Family Saved from Home Filled With Carbon Monoxide 
Long Island Press By Rashed Mian on March 16th, 2011
A Brentwood woman was arrested for reckless endangerment after she used a barbeque grill inside her home that caused her family to suffer carbon monoxide poisoning, Suffolk County police said. ...