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Carbon monoxide scare at day care sends 6 to hospital
KMBC VIDEO REPORT -
Six children from a KCK day care were taken to hospitals as a precaution after they reported feeling drowsy and tests showed elevated levels of carbon monoxide in the ...
Health Department warns of air pollution risks this winter
Q13 FOX
OLYMPIA – The state Department of Health is reminding people about air pollution hazards this winter. Health officials said smoke from wood fires can be a health hazard for people with heart and lung diseases like asthma. Children can ...
Fairbanks, North Pole again under air pollution advisories
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Ice fog and air quality advisories continue to plague much of the Interior. "You look at the way we live our life," Durrell said of the poor air quality, adding that people drive cars everywhere. The advisory in Fairbanks warns against prolonged outdoor exertion for people with heart or lung disease, the elderly and children. The same group is told to avoid any outdoor activity in North Pole, and everyone else is advised to avoid prolonged outdoor exertion.
Smog alerts increase in 2012; hot summer a factor
Columbus Dispatch
“Our job is to make sure we are meeting federal air-quality standards and that the air quality is improving over a long period of time, not just every single year,” Griesmer said. Shelly Kiser, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association in ...
The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
70 PPM to 149 PPM – resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions.
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce
SAINT PAUL, MN – Each year about 50,000 people visit emergency rooms in the United States for CO poisoning, and more than 500 die each year from this silent, odorless, colorless gas. As part of Winter Hazard Awareness Week (November 5-9), the Minnesota Department of Commerce warns Minnesotans of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to take steps to avoid this “silent killer.”
Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com
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Carbon monoxide toxicity
Emergency Medicine Ireland - By Andy Neill
Aviators – note:
(PDF) Federal Aviation Administration warning; Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace
Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
· Heart rescue video using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
· 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.
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
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 Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
