“...you’re gonna have to serve somebody” Bob Dylan (1941,)
There are numerous carbon monoxide poisoning circumstances posted on this web site that result in pleas for carbon monoxide alarm laws at the local, state, provincial or national level. These requests are often met with resistance armor that contains arguments from the anti-law/anti-government realm, to lobbyists ranting about the burdensome cost to landlords. Common sense would seem to suggest that a reasonable caution exercised by an adult would be to purchase alarm protection for fire and carbon monoxide incidences.
However, there are very reasonable people who would not have obtained a carbon monoxide alarm unless there was a law or an ordinance. We are kind of missing the fact that carbon monoxide alarms save lives and with accurate detection can reduce unneeded health care costs, absenteeism, dementia and a host of other detriments. Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Please be a part of carbon monoxide poisoning prevention and help raise awareness. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety.
Update
High CO levels prompt evacuation of seniors in Pequannock
NorthJersey.com
Dozens of seniors were evacuated from their homes in a local retirement community last Saturday morning due to elevated carbon monoxide levels, but no one was injured and they were all allowed back inside after a few hours, according to authorities.
Plea for prevention
Prince George's carbon monoxide deaths spur call for required home detectors
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
… where five residents were found dead April 24 from carbon monoxide poisoning that fire investigators said was caused by a rusted furnace pipe — there was no working carbon monoxide detector inside ...
Follow up
Port Jeff Station Gas Leak Home Was Illegally Split Into Multi-Family Units
Patch.com Town of Brookhaven officials confirmed that house had up to 10 people residing in it at time of carbon monoxide leak. By Lon Cohen Home on Jayne Blvd. in Port Jefferson Station where 11 victims of carbon monoxide poisoning were taken to the hospital on ...
Carbon Monoxide Survivor Check in on this 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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