Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”
Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788, bio link)
Small fires burning in a relatively small but occupiable enclosed space require oxygen from the air to combust. As the fire consumes the oxygen from the air at a demanding rate beyond the “made up” or replaced air entering back into the space, the generation of carbon monoxide accelerates as a result of incomplete combustion.
A small but occupiable space may describe shelters from the size of small camping tents, caravans, motor homes, camping trailers, ice fishing shelters, small apartments, inside automobiles and trucks. Small fires can be as small as a gas camp stove or lantern and include gas, oil, coal, bagasse, or wood heaters or cooking systems. That small fire may be somewhere in an appliance and you may not even know it is there, like in a gas refrigerator found in your vacation vehicle, trailer or remote cabin.
Small is also a relative word; relative that is to the size of the fire, the amount of air available for the fire with people in the size of the space, and, perhaps the number of fires occurring within that space. Large homes and buildings may have many fires occurring within it simultaneously for various lengths of time.
In that North American neighborhood, a person may get up on a winter morning and first engage the gas furnace to begin heating by turning the overnight setting to a warmer temperature, starting fire # 1. They then head to the kitchen and turn on the gas baking oven to pre-heat it for baking bread and start one stove top burner for the kettle. While these routines were conducted, another person in the home stepped into a hot shower, that eventually causes the water heater to ignite. We have successfully witnessed the start of 4 fires and we haven’t started the gas clothes dryer yet, lit the decorative fireplace or opened the garage door so we could warm the car up before leaving for the day, adding three more.
These fires need air. Some or all of these systems may have a small pilot light or two or three that are always burning at the ready, inside our homes or shelters. Some of these systems may be producing harmful levels of carbon monoxide when they operate. Make sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm wherever you may be exposed to it, including small spaces.
And please do not warm your vehicles up inside your attached or enclosed garages. If you measured the air inside that space while you were doing it, you could see for yourself how hazardous and dangerous that is. The car may be warm for the infant now, but without a doubt, harmful, very harmful. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
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CO News Links –
Cornwall caravan park deaths: warnings on carbon monoxide poisoning risks
Telegraph.co.uk
Poisoning by carbon monoxide is currently the suspected cause. The static home is situated in a row of similar static homes on the site and has a small garden and porch leading to the main building which has a red slated roof. Today the curtains at the ...
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention
VOCM
As the snow builds up around outside vents, the chances of carbon monoxide building up inside your home increases. VOCM's Ariana Kelland has some tips on how to prevent that from the St. John's Regional Fire Department. The "silent killer," as it's ...
Four in hospital after Wellington carbon monoxide poisoning
This is Somerset
One person was vomiting when they arrived and firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a gas detection monitor to find extreme high levels of carbon monoxide inside the building. Ambulance crews treated the four occupants and took them to hospital.
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.
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-seven 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
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
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CO Experts CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. UPDATE: Two eggs in the nest. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.
What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
