Scroll back in time through our archives for previous CO News links.
We can learn from others mistakes and efforts to prevent poisoning.
Carbon monoxide safety, we are all in this together.
“Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!”
Paula Radcliffe (1973, bio link)
"The Rain Song" Led Zeppelin - music link
Featured News Links – More news links below
Cancer rates among firefighters growing
WTTV CBS4Indy
New modern furniture is made with material that gives off a toxic chemical that can be just as dangerous as carbon monoxide… Your modern living room furniture, if on fire, can give off lethal levels of hydrogen cyanide which is 35 times more toxic than carbon monoxide. Firefighters breathe it in or absorb through their skin. It’s cancerous and has become a larger threat over the last decade…
Carbon monoxide detectors save lives
Baltimore Sun
Maryland requires carbon monoxide detectors in newly constructed homes and all public school buildings, plus certain renovated buildings. That, however, doesn't help anyone living in residences that do not fall under the requirement… Baltimore City requires any property with CO-producing appliances or devices to have a working carbon monoxide alarm installed outside of all sleeping areas. However, the ordinance, enacted in 2010, is rarely enforced…
Carbon monoxide detector alerts firefighters to garage fire
theifp.ca
Halton Hills firefighters were called to the report of a carbon monoxide activation at a residence in the Steeles Ave./Hornby Rd. area about 10 p.m. ...
More news links below –
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?
CO and Air Quality News Links
Blocked chimney leads to carbon monoxide alert in St Keverne
West Briton
Six firefighters attended a call to a property in St Keverne after a resident's carbon monoxide alarm went off just after 2am. The occupant ...
Deer Run Mine still idled by high carbon monoxide levels
The State Journal-Register
HILLSBORO — A southern Illinois coal mine shuttered for several weeks last summer from an underground fire remains idled by elevated carbon ...
Scam artists posing as carbon monoxide inspectors in Lilburn
Atlanta Journal
The city of Lilburn is not sending anyone around the area to do in-home carbon monoxide checks — and if anyone says otherwise, they’re blowing hot air… The Lilburn Police Department issued a news release Thursday warning residents that scammers had been reported “posing as persons authorized by the city of Lilburn to conduct in-home carbon monoxide checks.” Once inside homes, the scammers reportedly charge money for a service they don’t actually perform… “The city of Lilburn has authorized no one to inspect any residence for carbon monoxide or for anything else, nor is any city employee conducting this or any other inspection,” officials said…
New fire safety advice
Portsmouth News
The new ruling on compulsory smoke and carbon monoxide alarms follows years of campaigning by the Chief Fire Officers Association, supported by ...
Hawkins-Gignac Foundation donates carbon monoxide detectors to London Fire Department
Ingersoll Times
The retired Brantford firefighter founded the Hawkins-Gignac Foundation after losing his niece, OPP officer Laurie Hawkins, in 2008… The Hawkins-Gignac Foundation donated 75 carbon monoxide detectors to the London Fire Department as part of province-wide campaign… A major milestone was marked this week when a new Ontario law went into effect making carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in dwellings with less than six units…
Nippon exceeds one-hour carbon monoxide limits 3 times; ORCAA says incidents did not affect air ...
Peninsula Daily
PORT ANGELES — Nippon Paper Industries USA's new biomass boiler exceeded one-hour carbon monoxide limits twice Feb. 27 and once…
Carbon Monoxide Safety - El Paso County, Colorado, Public Service Announcement
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- 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-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
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
"The Rain Song" Led Zeppelin - music link
Featured News Links – More news links below
Cancer rates among firefighters growing
WTTV CBS4Indy
New modern furniture is made with material that gives off a toxic chemical that can be just as dangerous as carbon monoxide… Your modern living room furniture, if on fire, can give off lethal levels of hydrogen cyanide which is 35 times more toxic than carbon monoxide. Firefighters breathe it in or absorb through their skin. It’s cancerous and has become a larger threat over the last decade…
Carbon monoxide detectors save lives
Baltimore Sun
Maryland requires carbon monoxide detectors in newly constructed homes and all public school buildings, plus certain renovated buildings. That, however, doesn't help anyone living in residences that do not fall under the requirement… Baltimore City requires any property with CO-producing appliances or devices to have a working carbon monoxide alarm installed outside of all sleeping areas. However, the ordinance, enacted in 2010, is rarely enforced…
Carbon monoxide detector alerts firefighters to garage fire
theifp.ca
Halton Hills firefighters were called to the report of a carbon monoxide activation at a residence in the Steeles Ave./Hornby Rd. area about 10 p.m. ...
More news links below –
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.
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.
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. GET BUSY
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. GET BUSY
Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Blocked chimney leads to carbon monoxide alert in St Keverne
West Briton
Six firefighters attended a call to a property in St Keverne after a resident's carbon monoxide alarm went off just after 2am. The occupant ...
Deer Run Mine still idled by high carbon monoxide levels
The State Journal-Register
HILLSBORO — A southern Illinois coal mine shuttered for several weeks last summer from an underground fire remains idled by elevated carbon ...
Scam artists posing as carbon monoxide inspectors in Lilburn
Atlanta Journal
The city of Lilburn is not sending anyone around the area to do in-home carbon monoxide checks — and if anyone says otherwise, they’re blowing hot air… The Lilburn Police Department issued a news release Thursday warning residents that scammers had been reported “posing as persons authorized by the city of Lilburn to conduct in-home carbon monoxide checks.” Once inside homes, the scammers reportedly charge money for a service they don’t actually perform… “The city of Lilburn has authorized no one to inspect any residence for carbon monoxide or for anything else, nor is any city employee conducting this or any other inspection,” officials said…
New fire safety advice
Portsmouth News
The new ruling on compulsory smoke and carbon monoxide alarms follows years of campaigning by the Chief Fire Officers Association, supported by ...
Hawkins-Gignac Foundation donates carbon monoxide detectors to London Fire Department
Ingersoll Times
The retired Brantford firefighter founded the Hawkins-Gignac Foundation after losing his niece, OPP officer Laurie Hawkins, in 2008… The Hawkins-Gignac Foundation donated 75 carbon monoxide detectors to the London Fire Department as part of province-wide campaign… A major milestone was marked this week when a new Ontario law went into effect making carbon monoxide detectors mandatory in dwellings with less than six units…
Nippon exceeds one-hour carbon monoxide limits 3 times; ORCAA says incidents did not affect air ...
Peninsula Daily
PORT ANGELES — Nippon Paper Industries USA's new biomass boiler exceeded one-hour carbon monoxide limits twice Feb. 27 and once…
Carbon Monoxide Safety - El Paso County, Colorado, Public Service Announcement
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)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- American Red Cross
- Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution
- Heart Rescue using an (AED)
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- 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-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
North Carolina | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island |Tennessee
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
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
--------------------------------------------------
