“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Maya Angelou (1928, bio link)
We are a combustion culture. We burn things so we can use the energy. Look around. If all the people in the world who could read this message right this very minute, did read this message wherever they may be and just looked around, (at home, traveling, commuting, in school, at work, waiting somewhere, etc.) they most likely would find that they are within reach or just a few meters of a combustion system. For those of us in large buildings, the combustion system most likely too, is inside the building with us, heating water or air or cooking or even cleaning.
Medical facts of science warn us to avoid breathing in combustion gases. Be aware of where you are. Like love, carbon monoxide poisoning can strike almost anywhere at any time; look around. Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Advice from one who survived a carbon monoxide scare
Gas heater users told to be careful
Express Advocate Wyong
The former World War II pilot has survived three plane crashes but says he was never so scared as when he became disoriented due to carbon monoxide fumes from his gas heater. “I have had the heater for many years and built a false fireplace for it, ...
Carbon Monoxide Claims Two More Lives
Daily Guide
TWO MORE are reported dead after allegedly inhaling toxic emissions from a generator they allegedly used to power a television set to watch the Bayern Munich verses Chelsea match on Saturday, May 19. The two, Boye Annang, 33 and Ayi Ayeh, 30 were among ...
Carbon monoxide The silent killer WTOCTV Savannah Beaufort SC News ...
WTOC
A Savannah women went to the hospital earlier this week after a Carbon Monoxide scare, and the Savannah Fire Marshal says incidents like these happen more ...
Advice on camp safety
This is Somerset
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is urging campers to keep safe this summer and to remember the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is the most common form of household poison and is also a danger to people staying in tents ...
Warning issued on carbon monoxide poisoning
Ballymena Times
With the Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend providing the perfect opportunity for camping, the Public Health Agency, PHA, is reminding people of the danger of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from leaving lit or smoldering barbeques inside tents or caravans.
More on the health consequences of breathing combustion gases Diesel could be more injurious to health
Livemint
While carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide (CO)—components of vehicle exhaust—are also detrimental to health, there's no easy method to gauge toxicity relative to particulate matter, though several studies are unambiguous about the latter's harmful ...
We are not the only one’s here!
Globally, about one-quarter of black carbon emissions come from residential sources. Only a small fraction of North Americans depend on biomass-burning stoves. But about 3 billion people worldwide cook and heat their homes with stoves that burn wood, dung, other biomass, or coal. This raises the obvious issue of whether targeting cookstoves for emissions reductions means burdening the less wealthy and pushing the responsibility from those responsible for high per-capita emissions – American SUV drivers, for example – to those already at the low end of the income scale. (This is an excerpt from the following link about our global atmosphere and steps to address the predicaments.)
Smoke Jumpers
Earth Island Journal By Elizabeth Grossman
International negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and slow global warming are stuck in a stalemate. Many people in the United States – the world's biggest economy and one of the planet's top per capita greenhouse gas ...
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.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
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The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
