Link to: CO alarm standards – know when you are protected
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, bio link)
The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps perhaps, to reference locations noted in CO News headlines
American Red Cross - disaster relief
Many medical practitioner’s diagnostic habits exclude testing patients for carbon monoxide poisoning despite the symptoms being presented. People experiencing one or more known symptoms of CO poisoning do not give carbon monoxide a thought when they reach for the aspirin bottle.
These symptoms include reactions that mimic or have similarity to food poisoning, flu, headache, nausea, tiredness, depression, weakness, disorientation, seizures, complicated angina, blurry vision, rapid heartbeat, Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s symptoms.
Ironically, many of these symptoms are treated with medications that may only numb or dress up the symptoms without providing relief. They may only result in an increase in cognitive or psychological maladies and perhaps methemoglobin surges.
An inexpensive, non-invasive Carboxyhemoglobin % (COHb%) test can yield vital information in less than 30 seconds of time. A low level carbon monoxide alarm or a personal CO monitor can help prevent many of these symptoms from even starting simply by discovery and immediate corrective action. What are you waiting for? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links –
Chasing the CO ghost can get costly, frustrating
False Carbon Monoxide Alarm Closes East Park Elementary School
WDTV
East Park Elementary School was closed again on Thursday because of what school officials thought was another carbon monoxide leak inside the building. 5 News has learned it was just a false alarm. But regardless, many parents are starting to lose ...
Carbon Monoxide Causes Silent Sickness for Hillsborough Family
Hillsborough Patch
After suffering through a day of headaches Sunday, a Hillsborough family reportedly discovered high carbon monoxide levels in their home after purchasing a new monitor.
Two students in Larissa die, three hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning
Kathimerini
Two students have died in Larissa, central Greece, from carbon monoxide poisoning and another three are in a serious condition in a local hospital. Authorities said the five students had fired up a charcoal grill in their apartment on Thursday ...
Carbon monoxide has killed seven people in Cornwall in five years
This is Cornwall
Earlier this month a 60-year-old woman and her three dogs died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at her Treliska Guesthouse in St Ives. .
Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 11 in N China coal mine
Global Times
Eleven people die due to carbon monoxide poisoning after a forcing fan caught fire under a coal mine in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Friday. The accident occurred at 8 p.m. on Thursday in a coal mine in Huailai County of ...
Improving Air Quality One Building at a Time | Clean Air Campaign
Cleanaircampaign.org
Every mile we drive produces about a pound of pollution and while the majority of the pollution in our air comes from tailpipes, our built environment affects it ...
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
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
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!
