“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
Francis Picabia (1879-1953, bio link)
Is this the sequence of events we want in our schools?
Children get sick.
Carbon monoxide alarm sounds off.Ambulances and parents called.
Perhaps equipping the schools with carbon monoxide alarms that sound off before there is illness is a better idea. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
The Tennessean
Drexel Preparatory Academy, a Nashville charter school, sent children home early Monday after some got sick with flu-like symptoms and a carbon monoxide detector went off. The elementary school sent out a mass telephone alert to parents. Metro ...
Fox 31 KDVR.com
An Arvada family was back home Monday night after a carbon monoxide scare over the weekend. “I woke up and was feeling dizzy and I was able to wake up my wife and her mother,” says Brian Porter. He then called 911 and within minutes, Arvada ...
NBC 7 San Diego
A family of four in Imperial Beach was transported to the hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning Monday afternoon, fire department authorities said. The patients complained of flu-like symptoms just after noon in the 900 block of Cypress Avenue Monday.
By 41 Action News Staff
An elementary school in the Ray-Pec School District was evacuated Monday after high carbon monoxide levels were recorded.
98FM
Dublin City Council has launched an investigation following the discovery of two bodies in accommodation for the elderly on the North Circular Road. The man in his late 60s and woman in her 40s are suspected of suffering carbon monoxide poisoning.
Defendants surprised at charges
Huffington Post Canada
A senior health official says she is surprised that the Saskatoon Health Region has been charged in a carbon monoxide leak that contributed to three deaths at a seniors home. The region faces 11 offences under Saskatchewan's Occupational Health and ...
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
Take control inside your homes.
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.
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.”
Carbonmonoxidekills.com
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Emergency Medicine Ireland - By Andy Neill
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Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
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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.
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
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