Link to: CO alarm standards - know when you are protected
“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.” Agnetha Faltskog (1950, bio link)
The transition from one year to the next in a time of scheduled holiday activities has more than its share of good times and not so good times. The heaviness and suffocating grasp the unexpected death of a friend or loved one has on us strains our abilities to do anything but mourn and breathe through the heartache. Whether it be the losses through random, violent acts, auto accidents or a gradual, unsuspecting poison stealing life from the living, they all result in survivors and those impacted by the losses.
There are some parts of our lives we may have more control over to help safeguard and reduce the likelihood of some tragedies that are more foreseeable than others. Reducing exposure to carbon monoxide gas is more easily accomplished if you are aware that all combustion systems everywhere have the potential to generate deadly levels of the poison. And since there is no way you or I or anyone would know how well tuned and safe the heating equipment is in any other building we may work in, visit, go to school in, sleep in, shop in or whatever we do there, some awareness or measurement is the best safeguard.
Low level carbon monoxide protection everywhere you go isn’t “over the top”; just ask a survivor of CO poisoning.
Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Link to - Carbon Monoxide Survivor
CO News Links
Six people in Lancaster County home hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning
CBS 21
Six people in a Lancaster home were sent the hospital Monday night, for Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide, it's a dangerous and potentially fatal gas. But there are steps you can take so it doesn't hurt you or your family. CO is an odorless, ...
Two different carbon monoxide leaks force people from their Calgary homes
Calgary Herald
At about 8 p.m., the Calgary Fire Department responded to a call at a home in Whitehorn and found residents complaining of symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Two adult and a child took shelter in a fire engine while crews assessed CO levels in the ...
5 die in 2 Michigan homes, carbon monoxide suspected
The Detroit News
Flint — Michigan authorities say five people are dead in two separate incidents of what is believed to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Flint police say a man, woman and boy were found early Christmas morning. The adults were dead at the scene ...
Sleeping couple's dog alerts them to carbon monoxide danger
Chillicothe Gazette
CHILLICOTHE — A Chillicothe couple is crediting the actions of their dog for alerting them about the potentially dangerous presence of carbon monoxide inside their home earlier this month. Debbie Immell said she and her husband, Chad, were sleeping ...
School carbon monoxide detectors eyed
Philadelphia Inquirer
There have been nearly 20 evacuation incidents involving high levels of carbon monoxide in U.S. schools in recent years, but the devices are not required in New Jersey school buildings. "Some [New Jersey] schools do have them; unfortunately, some ...
Investigation to determine what caused carbon monoxide leak at Middletown ...
Patriot-News
MIDDLETOWN — An investigation is underway to find out how four police officers were sickened by carbon monoxide at the borough police station Monday night, spokesman Chris Courogen said Tuesday. Courogen said he did not know the names of the ...
Cold weather brings risk of carbon monoxide poisoning
Ventura County Star
I read something I know will strike a note of caution for anyone who happens to have an oil-burning furnace being used at this time of year. It was about the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning. The article I read told of a family about to turn on ...
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!
