Carbon Monoxide News November 21, 2013 - posts updated frequently

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“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”
"Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell - music link - 1970 live

 

Another natural disaster; more distress than those outside the damaged area can imagine. People of the world are asked again to do what they can to help the people clinging to life as the disaster’s hell continues in the Philippines. Another please, with hopes of another thank you. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety

 

Red Cross - Typhoon Appeal

 

CO and Air Quality News Links

Senior apartments ventilated; faulty furnace
Massillon Independent
A faulty furnace caused carbon monoxide levels to rise Wednesday afternoon at the Massillon Senior Apartments, 59 Lincoln Way E. The city fire department set ...

Another Carbon Monoxide Call at De Pere Apartment Complex
WBAY
De Pere - Crews were called to a De Pere apartment complex for the second time in two nights for high levels of carbon monoxide. Utility crews determined the carbon monoxide was coming from the building's boiler, ... Carbon monoxide is an odorless gas that can be deadly if undetected…

Carbon monoxide may have caused an Ocean Co. man's death
6abc.com
OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. (WPVI) -- Officials say carbon monoxide may have caused the death of a man in Stafford, New Jersey early… Police say they smelled a strong odor and found a kerosene heater nearby…

Using gas stove for heat can be dangerous
ABC 57 News
"It's a lot like running a generator or any other kind of gas appliance in your house, it's going to create carbon monoxide in the house and it could lead to you not… 

Mine Safety and Health Administration investigating deadly incident ...
The Denver Channel
... that left two miners dead of carbon monoxide poisoning and injured 20 others. ... rock, and the explosion might have been a source of the carbon monoxide…

Teacher released from hospital after school carbon monoxide ...
Deseret News
Connie Todachinnie is helped out of LDS Hospital by Alan Barnett and Melonie Aldous on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Todachinnie was the victim of carbon monoxide…

Buying A Carbon Monoxide Detector Could Save Your Life
WIBW
Is a carbon monoxide detector really on people's minds? ... After leaving a gas fireplace on by accident, it spread carbon monoxide throughout the house…

Charity Launched 8th National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week ...
AboutMyArea
Carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete combustion of any ... Those poisoned by just low levels of carbon monoxide can go on to develop long term...

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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