“Tell the children the truth.”
Bob Marley (1963-1981, bio link)
Carbon monoxide leak reported at Goodyear home
Tucson Citizen by Mary Kate Lau, under Arizona Republic News
The Goodyear Fire Department is investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a home Monday afternoon. The owner of the home, near Indian School Road and Pebble Creek Parkway, called the Fire ...
CO bill gains traction
London Free Press By RON THOMSON, QMI Agency
TORONTO - Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman's quest to make carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in Ontario homes gained a bit of traction Monday. Hardeman's private members bill, the Hawkins-Gignac Act, passed second reading March 8 ...
Cwmbran mum's call for carbon monoxide alarms in homes
South Wales Argus
A GWENT mum whose daughter died from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning has renewed her calls for people to have alarms fitted at their homes. Anne Mitchell, of Coed Eva, Cwmbran, found daughter Alex, 14 collapsed at their home on Good Friday in 2005.
Carbon monoxide poisoning kills five in Ankara
Sunday's Zaman
Five people were found dead as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a leak from a heating stove in a home in Ankara on Monday. Four of the five victims killed in the tragic incident, which occurred in the city's Keçiören district, ...
We are combustion
Most people don’t think of themselves as combustion systems, but they are. Air is approximately 20.9% oxygen and almost 79% nitrogen. The food we eat and drink is made of predominantly hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen & proteins. When we mix the oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen & proteins into our system we generate heat & energy and exhaust gases, similar to an oil or gas burning combustion system using up air and the hydrogen’s and carbons to generate heat.
Since humans are not perfect combustion systems, some levels of CO are produced. 1 to 3% COHb is often referenced as “normal” (COHb is specific to carboxyhemoglobin; in this reference the % of hemoglobin saturated with carbon monoxide). Baseline & periodic testing can verify “normal”. (Normal is specific to measured levels outside in air in PPM. Normal is with reference to human COHb levels in blood by % when exogenous or the outside-our-body sources of carbon monoxide are limited or minimal to zero.)
Home CO alarms listed under the Underwriter’s Laboratory Standard 2034 are required to sound off when the equivalent of a 10% COHb concentration is present. This may be too late for some people of vulnerable health. Protect yourself and others with a low level carbon monoxide alarm.
Carbon Monoxide Survivor
A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
Bald Eagle Camera
Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa; live nest.
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
