January 13, 2011

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
Aeschylus (525 BC-426 BC)

Detector Alerts Kansas City, KS Family To Carbon-Monoxide Danger
KMBC.com
Five people including an infant were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in Kansas City, Kan., early Friday morning.

Tulsa Family Urges Carbon Monoxide Lessons After Deadly - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa ...
News On 6
Carbon monoxide levels, five times what is considered safe, were detected near the stove in the couple's apartment. Sarah says her dad loved his four kids, and five grandchildren. Sarah urges everyone to get a carbon monoxide ...

Details Emergency Rescue of 39 Midshipmen from USMMA Overcome with Carbon Monoxide ...
Great Neck Record
Chief Plakstis said that the 39 Alert firefighters who responded to the call quickly established that the source of the problem was carbon monoxide poisoning that stemmed from a faulty water heater in Barry Hall, but the gas had also spread to Jones ...

Be cautious of carbon monoxide poisoning
The Tennessean
She had a rather heartbreaking story to tell and wanted me to share a bit about carbon monoxide poisoning and hopefully to help save lives. Two of her relatives were killed in Clarksville. If you will remember back in September, Bikers Who Care was ...

Carbon monoxide tests on homes after family falls ill
Irish Independent By Greg Harkin
Fire safety experts will today carry out tests on homes in an estate where a family of four were treated for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. The couple and their two children were treated at Sligo General Hospital after complaining ...

January 12, 2012

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.”
Dave Barry (1947,) 

All Students Released from Hospital after Carbon Monoxide Scare
Patch.com By Mark Schieldrop
A repair crew is at St. Mary Parish at this hour working to repair a boiler that malfunctioned and sickened 13 St. Mary School students with carbon monoxide during a prayer service this morning. Five students were taken to the ...

Carbon Monoxide Calls Related to New Roofs
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth By Sara Story
Flower Mound officials encourage homeowners to double check newly-installed roofs after receiving an increased amount of calls regarding carbon monoxide. The Flower Mound Fire Department has experienced a significant increase in carbon ...

Cooler temperatures increase risk for carbon monoxide poisoning
WPSD Local 6
As outdoor winter temperatures drop and the risk for carbon monoxide poisoning increases, everyone is urged to be aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning due to improper use of heating or cooking devices. “Carbon monoxide poisoning can ...

Follow up
Leaky Stove To Blame In Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Death
KTUL (blog)
A leaky stove is likely the cause of a carbon monoxide poisoning that has killed one and left another in critical condition at a Tulsa hospital. Late Tuesday night EMSA responded a respiratory call at the Plaza Hills East Apartment complex in east ...

Gyrn Goch tent death 'classic' poisoning from barbecue fumes
BBC News
A woman who died while sleeping in a tent with a smouldering charcoal barbecue suffered "classic" carbon monoxide poisoning, an inquest has heard. Tracey Screen, 34, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, died while on holiday in Gwynedd with her husband and ...

Permission granted: Anchorage can get rid of tailpipe inspections, too
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
As in Fairbanks, the air in Anchorage has long since lost the toxic levels of carbon monoxide the inspections sought to counteract. Anchorage hasn't violated the federal rules since 1997. Fairbanks hadn't violated the rules since 2000. ...

Landfill gas can be converted into clean energy
Bizcommunity.com
Landfill gas comprises approximately 50% methane, 40% carbon dioxide, small quantities of oxygen and nitrogen, and over 100 other trace gases, including carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide. Whilst carbon dioxide is found in much greater quantities in ...

January 11, 2012

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins (1941,)

Farmville woman lucky to be alive after carbon monoxide poisoning
WNCT
“A lot of days I’d come home from work and eat supper and have a headache so bad I’d have a Tylenol before I went to bed,” said Nancy Oakley, possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Little did Oakley know, the furnace in her Farmville home was potentially ...

Carbon Monoxide Increases Fire Department Calls
The Daily Greenburgh
Instead they may release carbon monoxide into the air, which is just as deadly. "We probably respond more to actual carbon monoxide incidents as a result of malfunctioning heating units than we do fires," said Deputy Chief Syd Henry, who served as ...

Carbon Monoxide Leak Sends 18 To Hospital In The Bronx
CBS New York
NEW YORK – More than a dozen people were sent to the hospital Tuesday morning after a carbon monoxide leak in a Bronx apartment building. Firefighters were called to the building on East 172nd Street when the first alarm went off at around ...

Dr. Jeff Hersh: Detecting carbon monoxide exposure
Oak Ridger
How would I know if this was from carbon monoxide poisoning? A: Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, tasteless gas that is created when hydrocarbon compounds such as gasoline or natural gas are burned. Gas furnaces/water heaters, ...

Taxpayers spending millions on Old Town mill that keeps on polluting
Bangor Daily News
They have asked the DEP to allow the mill to more than double its permitted emissions of carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that can be harmful to people with heart disease. NOTE: The Disagreement “Rather than spend money to solve the persistent air pollution problem, the mill owners want the state to relax pollution rules. They have asked the DEP to allow the mill to more than double its permitted emissions of carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that can be harmful to people with heart disease. Old Town Fuel & Fiber says it’s too expensive to fix the carbon dioxide’s source — principally, a wood-burning boiler — and that continued pollution, which it characterizes as small, is a price the community should pay for the mill’s economic benefits. It has 216 employees.”

January 10, 2012

“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” Israel Zangwill (1864-1926)

Another Carbon Monoxide Scare In Bridgeport
YouTube
The flue on the furnace had worked itself loose so each time the furnace ran it released carbon monoxide into the apartments. The gas company arrived on scene and the furnace was repaired. Fire officials remained on the scene until 3:00pm ventilating ...

Stopping the 'silent killer' at its source
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless gas, is called the "silent killer." It almost was for one Santa Fe family recently. When Casey Stults' toddler daughter began having stomach aches in early December, Stults though it was the flu. ...

6 Hospitalized After Beverly Carbon Monoxide Leak
CBS Chicago By Adam Harrington
At least six people were taken to the hospital early Monday from a home on the northern edge of the Beverly neighborhood.

Hoquiam man saves 5 people from carbon monoxide poisoning
KING5.com
A Hoquiam man may have saved five people from dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to fire department officials. Sunday night, Chris Cummings went to visit a friend in the 200 block of Garfield Street. When he arrived he noticed the five ...

Mansfield cops: Furnace blamed for sending 3 to hospital with carbon monoxide ...
Warren Reporter
At about noon, Hackettstown Regional Medical Center told township police that three people from Mansfield Village were in the emergency room with high levels of carbon monoxide exposure. The police went to the affected building along with ...

Another carbon monoxide poisoning in Yerevan
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Another case of carbon monoxide poisoning was recorded in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on Monday. Information was received from the first aid hotline that Yerevan apartment resident Anna Marutyan, 30, was hospitalized for symptoms of carbon monoxide ...

January 9, 2011

“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.” Michel de Montaigne (1553-1592)

Pain, loss and injury are motivators
Smoke detector sales up in Greenwich after Stamford blaze
Ct Post
A display of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors at Feinsod Hardware includes a poster  that advertises smoke and carbon monoxide detectors   ...

Family Evacuated For High Levels Of Carbon Monoxide
WCVB-TV
High levels of carbon monoxide forced a Brookline family from their home Sunday afternoon. Fire officials received a call at about 4 pm for high readings of carbon monoxide at the home on Cutler Lane. A mother and son who live at the home were taken to ...

Carbon monoxide leak at Kings Point academy
Newsday By EMILY NGO
At least 38 people were taken from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point to area hospitals for evaluation late Sunday night after carbon monoxide was discovered leaking from a water heater...

Family survives carbon monoxide fumes
KPCnews.com
LIGONIER — A West Noble High School teacher and his wife are hoping that others can learn a valuable lesson following a carbon monoxide incident at their home last week. Monte and Jenny Mawhorter of rural ...

Experts warn of carbon monoxide leaks
Lawrence Journal World
In the past few years, Coffman, owner of Airtight Energy Audits, has visited between 25 to 30 homes that have had high levels of carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas produced by incomplete burning of fuels. And, he has seen at least 10 homes ...

Follow up
Chester landlord pleads guilty to endangerment
Delaware County Daily Times
Jeffrey Bobb, 43, of Cherry Hill, NJ, was arrested in January 2010 after a tenant in his property on the 1100 block of Madison Street had to be evacuated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Chester Fire ...

January 8, 2012

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Fireman's close call underscores danger of carbon monoxide, need for detectors
The Herald Journal Tyler Larson
Craig Humphreys was demonstrating how to test for carbon monoxide with a four gas monitor at the Logan City Fire Department Saturday morning.

January 7, 2012

“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms.” Laurence Olivier (1907-1989)

10 People Hospitalized In Bridgeport For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Hartford Courant
They took 10 residents from the building, six men, two women, a girl around the age of seven, and a boy around the age of four. All residents were showing signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. They were all still alert.

Carbon Monoxide Detected in South Dallas School
33 KDAF-TV
A Hazardous Material team detected high levels of carbon monoxide inside Irma Rangler High School Friday morning. Around 500 students and faculty members were evacuated from Irma Lerma Rangel High School Friday morning, after someone reported smelling ...

Danvers fire chief criticizes response to carbon monoxide leak at apartment ...
Boston.com By Justin A. Rice, Town Correspondent
A woman was sent to the hospital last month after a carbon monoxide leak at her apartment was magnified by the fact that the complex's maintenance team had turned off six carbon monoxide monitors when they started ...

Lafayette Fire Department receives grant award for $22000
KATC Lafayette News
Pulse oximeters provide firefighters a non-invasive monitoring of blood oxygenation and carbon monoxide levels in both civilians and firefighters, providing a quick way of detecting Carbon monoxide poisoning. Fire fighters currently monitor CO ...

Manheim Firefighters To Distribute Smoke, Carbon Monoxide Detectors
WGAL Lancaster
Now, Manheim firefighters are going door to door with smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. The Fire Department has about 250 detectors to hand out and install thanks to a donation from the VFW and a discount from Longenecker's Hardware. ...