Wednesday, March 9, 2011

March 9, 2011

Carbon monoxide alarms save lives. They also often result in further discovery that a combustion appliance has malfunctioned. This is inexpensive insurance for landlords and homeowners.
Carbon Monoxide Safety Association

Move clocks ahead by one hour this weekend 
Greenville News
When you change your clocks this weekend, change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. The Glassy Mountain Fire Department is hoping people will remember to do that when daylight saving time begins at 2 am Sunday, ...

Carbon Monoxide In Local Businesses 
WPTZ The Champlain Valley
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Carbon monoxide has been a big issue around the region because of the volume of snow. Monday morning, fire officials detected low levels of carbon monoxide inside "Her Look," a business on Meadow Lane in South Burlington. ...

Storm's aftermath: water, fire and ice woes 
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Carbon monoxide alerts sounded in Burlington homes. And three Queen City motorists fried their vehicles to a crisp. Damage reports are still filtering in from Monday's monster snowstorm. Some offer cautionary lessons; others simply illustrate the ...

Alarm alert reinforces carbon monoxide message 
Reading Post
A crew manager from Dee Road fire station recommended the detectors after the crew were called out to an alarm in Valerie Court, Coley, on Wednesday night. Crew manager Rob Read said: “Quite rightly they rang for us and we checked they were all right, ...

Local school safe again after carbon monoxide scare 
KMOV.com
This March 8, 2011 photo taken from a News 4 newscast shows Jefferson Elementary school where a carbon monoxide scare caused an evacuation on Tuesday. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) -- The St. Louis Public Schools district says Jefferson Elementary is safe after ...

Proof of smoking problem is in the puffing 
OCRegister By COURTNEY PERKES
St. Joseph Hospital has started testing carbon monoxide levels to help smokers see the benefits of quitting. ORANGE – It's still early in the quitting process for this group of ex-smokers who munch sunflower seeds, chew gum and suck ...

Valleys mum takes carbon monoxide fight to Assembly
 South Wales Argus By Jessica Best »
A VALLEYS mother whose son and grandparents died from carbon monoxide poisoning is taking her campaign about the dangers of the deadly gas to the Assembly Government. Adele Forbes, 27, from Fleur-de-Lys, lost her five-year-old son ...