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Farmville woman lucky to be alive after carbon monoxide poisoning
WNCT
“A lot of days I’d come home from work and eat supper and have a headache so bad I’d have a Tylenol before I went to bed,” said Nancy Oakley, possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Little did Oakley know, the furnace in her Farmville home was potentially ...
Carbon Monoxide Increases Fire Department Calls
The Daily Greenburgh
Instead they may release carbon monoxide into the air, which is just as deadly. "We probably respond more to actual carbon monoxide incidents as a result of malfunctioning heating units than we do fires," said Deputy Chief Syd Henry, who served as ...
Carbon Monoxide Leak Sends 18 To Hospital In The Bronx
CBS New York
NEW YORK – More than a dozen people were sent to the hospital Tuesday morning after a carbon monoxide leak in a Bronx apartment building. Firefighters were called to the building on East 172nd Street when the first alarm went off at around ...
Dr. Jeff Hersh: Detecting carbon monoxide exposure
Oak Ridger
How would I know if this was from carbon monoxide poisoning? A: Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas that is created when hydrocarbon compounds such as gasoline or natural gas are burned. Gas furnaces/water heaters, ...
Taxpayers spending millions on Old Town mill that keeps on polluting
Bangor Daily News
They have asked the DEP to allow the mill to more than double its permitted emissions of carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that can be harmful to people with heart disease. NOTE: The Disagreement “Rather than spend money to solve the persistent air pollution problem, the mill owners want the state to relax pollution rules. They have asked the DEP to allow the mill to more than double its permitted emissions of carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that can be harmful to people with heart disease. Old Town Fuel & Fiber says it’s too expensive to fix the carbon dioxide’s source — principally, a wood-burning boiler — and that continued pollution, which it characterizes as small, is a price the community should pay for the mill’s economic benefits. It has 216 employees.”
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