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Ontario launches Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week
Globalnews.ca
Creating an annual awareness week was part of Bill 77 passed by the province last year, which made carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in ...
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Ontario launches Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week
Globalnews.ca
Creating an annual awareness week was part of Bill 77 passed by the province last year, which made carbon monoxide alarms mandatory in ...
Carbon monoxide scares in Allentown bring attention to safety concerns
WFMZ Allentown
Just this week several calls have already come in to the Allentown Fire Department for carbon monoxide leaks. Sunday morning, fire crews were dealing with high levels of CO in a home in the 900 block of Tilghman Street…
November is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month
Antrim Times
Throughout November, the NI CO Safety Group will be raising awareness about the dangers from carbon monoxide and urging the public to protect ...
Elderly man, woman dead after fire at Etobicoke home
CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
... it comes at a time of year when fire officials are reminding people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors…
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We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others
The following link takes you to a site with views from those who have been poisoned. The seriousness of carbon monoxide poisoning, the grief, suffering and disorientations experienced are clearly portrayed with the intent to help others and prevent future poisonings. With respect, please visit:
What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own 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.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.
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 as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.
You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn.
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Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Off-campus student services has first housing blitz of semester
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
During the blitz, city inspectors found an opening between the furnace and the outside of the house in the basement. Because the opening was not sealed, carbon monoxide was able to escape into the house, according to the inspectors…
Protecting Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
KAIT
JONESBORO—In the past few months, carbon monoxide poisoning has claimed the lives of at least three people from Region 8…
A Mile High Problem – Pollution and Solutions – Stop Burning Stuff
Fighting Denver's Brown Cloud Could Mean 'Action Days' This Winter
CBS Local
On very cold days with little wind in the winter carbon monoxide and other particulate matter can create a brown cloud… To help keep our air clean the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issues an air quality forecast each day for the seven-county Denver metro area… Daily advisories are issued at 4 p.m. and can be found on the weather page of CBSDenver.com or by calling a recorded hotline at 303-758-4848…
Smoking Materials Caused Fire
WXIX
His daughter and another woman, 21-year-old Kathryn Welling of Bronxville, New York, died of carbon monoxide and smoke inhalation. The coroner ...
Carbon monoxide problem a serious issue with central heating systems
DutchNews.nl
The Dutch safety research council has launched an investingation into carbon monoxide poisoning due to poorly installed or maintained central heating boilers, following reports that there are far more cases than thought...
Understanding Parkinson's
SunLive
And there is also some evidence that certain toxins may cause Parkinson's disease; manganese, carbon monoxide and some pesticides…
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
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
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:
- 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
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:
-Alcoa Eagle Nest Camera
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 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
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 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
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-eight U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Feb. 2014
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Red Cross - Typhoon Appeal continues in the Philippines. Another please, with hopes of another thank you. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.
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
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