Friday, January 11, 2013

Carbon Monoxide News January 11, 2013 - posts updated frequently - Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day

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

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Immanuel Kant (1724-1804, bio link)

Who is responsible for the air you breathe?

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Family suffers carbon monoxide poisoning
KTSM News Channel 9

Five family members were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday evening. Firefighters arrived at the home on Camino De La Rosa in San Elizario at ...

Our view: Keep family alive with carbon monoxide safety tips
Midland Daily News

There have been at least seven Michigan deaths associated with carbon monoxide poisoning in late December and early January, with one incident killing three Flint family members in the same household. More than 150 people in the United States die ...

Is your home protected? New Carbon Monoxide Awareness campaign launched
Bay TV Liverpool

The Gas Safe Register launched their new campaign today at Merseyside Fire and Rescue's headquarters to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning, they have been supported by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, who now have ...

High carbon monoxide levels shut down Elk Creek Mine
KKCO-TV

(KKCO) – The Elk Creek Mine has been temporarily closed as investigators look into the cause of dangerously high carbon monoxide levels. The poisonous gas was detected Tuesday night, according to Jim Cooper, the president of Oxbow Mining, LLC

Editor's Notebook: Tech Update Commercial Unitary and Residential Indoor Air ...
Contracting Business

... and applied equipment. Residential Indoor Air Quality includes humidifiers, dehumidifiers, energy recovery ventilators, heat recovery ventilators, ultra-violet lights, filters, filtration systems, duct cleaning equipment, instruments, and testers ...

Alert! Foreseeable future for us all if we don’t curb combustion 
Beijing Warns Residents to Stay Indoors as Air Turns Hazardous
Bloomberg

Air quality measured at all Beijing's monitoring sites “reached serious pollution levels this morning” and people should “avoid outdoor activities,” the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its official account on Sina Corp.'s ...

And then, we argue…
London official defends Mayor's air quality policies
AirQualityNews

An official from the Greater London Authority (GLA) has rejected claims that Mayor Boris Johnson is attempting to weaken EU air quality laws. Speaking at a conference in Brussels on Tuesday (January 8), Elliot Treharne, air quality manager at the GLA ...

While the “writing is on the wall”, so to speak…
Pollution turns Hong Kong harbour from 'fragrant' to foul
Bangkok Post

Hong Kong is poised to get tough on ships burning dirty fuels that have turned the harbour into a city often covered in smog with air pollution killing over 3,000 people yearly. Now the government is vowing to get tough, with activists hoping mandatory ...

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

· 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