Carbon Monoxide News October 10, 2013 - posts updated frequently

Every day is a carbon monoxide safety education day.
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“The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998, bio link)

Note that carbon monoxide is slightly lighter than air in temperatures normally found indoors. CO mixes well with air and moves easily with the normal currents found inside of buildings. Place your carbon monoxide alarms where air moves, and where you or others might be. Some state laws require alarms to be within 10 or 15 feet from bedrooms. If you have ever fallen asleep in your family room, living room or bonus room, then you had better place one near there as well. You can be poisoned while you are awake as well as while you sleep. The poison can in fact make you sleepy.

Like with all gasses, temperature and atmospheric pressure impact carbon monoxide. A colder, more dense and heavier air mass over an urban area with high combustion gas generation where carbon monoxide is also produced, can result in higher ground area concentrations of the poison. The idling of automobiles on a cold day is a big contributor to these higher levels of CO in breathable air.

Do not warm cars up inside of a garage with the door closed or open. Start it up and pull it outside the building; all the way outside. If you can’t because of the close proximity to a street or walkway, or for some other reason, then your best way to avoid brief CO poisoning from this source is to start your car, pull out and get on your way.

If you want to know how much carbon monoxide your infant or children (or even yourself) are in when inside automobiles, purchase a personal CO monitor or a low level carbon monoxide health monitor. Both types of systems have digital displays and you can observe low levels and higher. You may stop warming that car up inside the garage and placing that child into the car seat that is now inside a gas chamber. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

CO and Air Quality News Links

Fire Prevention Fact #15
PenBayPilot.com
Carbon Monoxide. Although the popularity of carbon monoxide (CO) alarms has been growing in recent years, it cannot be assumed that everyone is familiar ...

Follow up
Short-circuit, not fire or smoke, set off fire alarm at school
Foster's Daily Democrat
Typically concern begins when carbon monoxide levels reach 10 ppm, while levels at the school only reached a level 6-8 ppm. “We made sure kids were not ...

Effect of maternal stresses and air pollution on kids
Health24.com
Maternal stress and air pollution have each been pinpointed as possible contributors to behaviour problems in childhood, but a new study suggests the harmful effects are magnified by exposure to both in the womb. "Pollution during pregnancy can affect the developing brain through a lot of possible pathways, but we are not yet sure which ones are actually most important," said Andrea Roberts, a research associate with the department of social and behavioural sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Pollution could make the brain more vulnerable to later impacts, like mother's mood and quality of parenting, which we know affects [the] child's mood, mental health and behaviour. So, it may be that the brains of kids exposed to pollution during gestation are less resilient to the effects of later stressors."

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 packageand 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

Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.

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

World population counter

- 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.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association

Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce

Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning Carbonmonoxidekills.com

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

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

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