Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts (1915-1973, bio link)
Carbon monoxide alarms are designed to help prevent death from poisoning by alerting to the presence of CO levels that are injurious to healthy people. If you live in a home where there is a combustion gas source and you do not have a carbon monoxide alarm, you are taking a risk for you and for others. Get one, it is not foolish. If you are less than healthy, get better protection.
Combustion systems like furnaces, boilers, cooking systems, fireplaces, space heaters and domestic water heaters can be installed to operate with minimal carbon monoxide production and to safely vent the products of combustion out of the breathable air. If you do not have your appliances tested and adjusted for minimal CO generation and safe combustion gas exhausting, you are taking a risk.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
Carbon Monoxide Fills Littleton Home, Sending 10 To Hospital
CBS Local
(CBS4) – Carbon Monoxide filled a Littleton home Tuesday, sending 10 people to the hospital. Firefighters say if it had happened at night they could have all been dead. Five adults and five elementary school aged children were sent to St. Anthony's ...
Family suffers effects of carbon monoxide as new detector law kicks in
Q13 FOX
BURLINGTON, Wash. — A family of five became ill or showed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday after bringing a barbeque stove into the home to stay warm. The incident happened on the same day that carbon monoxide detectors became ...
MEP warns of danger of carbon monoxide fumes
The Star
Ms McAvan has long campaigned on carbon monoxide safety, from harmonising manufacturing standards of carbon monoxide alarms in the EU to ensure no faulty detectors enter the market, to creating common minimum standards of hotel safety in Europe ...
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!
