CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear.
Peter Sinfield, for Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(Listen to - I believe in Father Christmas)
CO News Links
Carbon monoxide leak causes building evacuation
Waterbury Republican American
WATERBURY -- A furnace malfunction caused a carbon monoxide leak at 49 Piedmont St. Friday at about 9:15 p.m. The multi-unit, residential building was evacuated while firefighters shut down the furnace and ventilated the building.
'Tis the Season to Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
baltimorecountymd.gov
The death of our Uncle Tony from carbon monoxide poisoning 12 years ago is ... They didn't know that carbon monoxide poisoning can produce the same ...
Is Your Oversized Furnace Wasting Your Money?
Green Building Elements
To be clear, AFUE is a rating of efficiency for combustion furnace or boiler appliances, to include natural gas, propane, and fuel oil. A typical builder-grade open-combustion gas furnace will likely have an AFUE of between the mid to high 80% range.
Siberia's black snow was ash from coal combustion
DigitalJournal.com
According to the Moscow Times chemical samples of the snow revealed it "was characteristic of ash formed from coal combustion, citing silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, iron oxide and calcium oxide as the ash's main components.
Television series can educate, influence and raise awareness
(even if real life doesn’t)
Corrie's Jennie McAlpine: 'Carbon monoxide story already saving lives'
Digital Spy UK
Coronation Street's Jennie McAlpine has said that her upcoming carbon monoxide storyline is already saving lives. McAlpine's character Fiz Stape will be left in a critical condition on New Year's Eve after suffering gas poisoning from a faulty boiler.
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
Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:
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
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
American Red Cross - disaster relief
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!
