Jesse Colin Young (1941,)
Silent Survey
- Do you think it is likely people could get sick from breathing the combustion gases, the exhaust of a service vehicle that burns a combustible gas like propane or gasoline?
- Do you think it is more or less likely for people to get sick when the combustion gases from these vehicles are generated and breathed within the same space, inside a building?
- Do you think people generally have enough common sense not to run these types of vehicles inside buildings?
Another ice arena illness
Vancouver Sun
A Zamboni machine, not a faulty boiler, may have been the cause of a carbon monoxide leak at a Kamloops ice arena that sent 50 people to hospital over the weekend. FortisBC initially suspected a faulty boiler, sending a technician to turn off the main ...
Gateway News by Mike Lesko
Streetsboro -- The city plans to provide 1500 smoke detectors and 450 carbon monoxide detectors for free to eligible residents this summer, city leaders said. The total cost to the city would be $51000, which would purchase ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
A Casper woman has sued the companies that own and operate the Sunridge Apartments after a carbon monoxide leak gave her a traumatic brain injury last year, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week. "Plaintiff Amber Nicole Lompe was poisoned with ...
Providence Eyewitness News (WPRI)
SMITHFIELD, R.I. - Fire departments respond to 65,000 calls related to carbon monoxide every year. The gas is also responsible for over 500 deaths annually. Despite those numbers, Eyewitness News has learned carbon monoxide detectors are not required in nursing homes in Rhode Island. "I find it amazing that we wouldn't have a law in the state to protect some of the most vulnerable people," said Laurie Pendergast of North Smithfield.
She knows first-hand how devastating carbon monoxide can be. Her brother, Bill Moran, died in a West Virginia hotel from CO poisoning in February. The hotel did not have carbon monoxide detectors, and they were not required by Virginia law. "It's still a shock," said Laurie. "It's still hard to believe."….
BBC News
The family of a teenage girl who died at a Shropshire campsite from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning have said they are "devastated". Hannah Thomas-Jones, 14, was found dead inside a tent, where family members were discovered unconscious, on Sunday.
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.
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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