Friday, December 28, 2012

Carbon Monoxide News December 28, 2012 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day

Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected

“There's time enough, but none to spare.”
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932, bio link)

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Carbon Monoxide Leak Found At House Where 3 Died
CBS Local
FLINT (WWJ/AP) - It turns out a furnace is to blame for a carbon monoxide leak that killed a Flint couple and a young boy. Police say 43-year-old LeTroy Edwards, 37-year-old Selena Carranza and 11-year-old Jayson Cobbin were found unresponsive in their ...

Woman found dead of possible carbon monoxide poisoning
Up North Live-Local News

A Lake County woman was found dead inside her home this morning.

Carbon Monoxide Monitor Requirement Expands To Apartments
KPBS

SAN DIEGO — California law already requires single-family homes to have carbon monoxide detectors. On Jan. 1, the mandate will expand to apartments and condominiums. Each year carbon monoxide poisoning kills about 450 people across the United ...

Carbon monoxide detectors installed in Polk schools
Cedartown Standard

Carbon monoxide is a common industrial hazard resulting from the incomplete burning of natural gas and any other material containing carbon such as gasoline, kerosene, oil, propane, coal or wood. It is harmful when breathed because it displaces oxygen ...

CO poisoning in Michigan prompts warnings in Montana
MI deaths prompt carbon monoxide detector reminder
KAJ18 Kalispell Montana News

The Missoula Fire Department is offering up some recommendations for how to deal with carbon monoxide in light of the accident, and the first thing to do is make sure you have a carbon monoxide detector. They typically run around the same price as a ... "One of the important things to remember is that Montana state legislature made it mandatory for landlords to provide their tenants with CO detectors if they have gas fire appliances in the residence," Missoula Assistant Fire Marshall Dax Fraser pointed out.

Risk 'minimal' but Smithfield school leaders investigating carbon monoxide ...
Valley Breeze

SMITHFIELD - Carbon monoxide detectors are common safety devices in many homes, but there are none in the town's school buildings - and that may soon change. Supt. Robert O'Brien told the School Committee at a recent meeting that only two states ...

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

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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