Carbon Monoxide News June 25, 2013 - posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
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“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.”
Gordon Parks (1912-2006, bio link)

CO and Air Quality News Links    
Blooming Grove apartments evacuated for high CO levels
WISC Madison
A carbon monoxide test came back extremely high in the basement and first floor. That's when the maintenance manager evacuated the building. "(There were) too many lives at stake," said Bryce Dale, Holiday Apartments maintenance manager.

Wilmington firefighters to go door-to-door in Southbridge on Tuesday
The News Journal

Wilmington firefighters will conducting their quarterly door-to-door distribution of fire prevention pamphlets and installations of smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors Tuesday in the Southbridge community. The effort is part of the Wilmington ...

Carbon Monoxide Concerns | Home Energy Assistance
Energy Resource Center
Learn about the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning and how to prevent it.

Remembering Maria: '23-in-30' to Help Save Lives fro...
TheAlternativePress.com
Stefan Calvaruso speaks to a reporter in Ecuador about the dangers of carbon monoxide, while showing how a simple detector, which costs less than $30, can save lives.

Council fined over faulty boiler
BBC South East Wales
Newport City Council fined over faulty boiler. The Health and Safety Executive says Newport City Council has been fined £20,000 after building work at a house exposed a woman and children to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. The HSE says the case ...

We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.

We are slaves to combustion in this world. Do you doubt that? Take inventory of the fires around you and how many you start that add to the combustion gasses in the air. Then see how many fires you can live without. From the power plant to the party barbeque, from the automobile to the kettle fire, from the earth to the moon (mars); fire, fire everywhere. Where will our next breathe of air come from? Measurement is education. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Take control inside your homes.

-Link to: CO alarm standards –

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. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

These following links may be of some use to you:
- The World Clock - Time Zones
- Google Maps-
- Earthquake Map

- American Red Cross
- Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution
- Heart Rescue using an (AED)

- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.

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:

· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.

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.
NOTE: Another camera is in operation from a lower angle.

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
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