CO News - August 2007

Gary mulls law to halt carbon monoxide deaths
Gary Post Tribune - Gary, IN, USA
By Jon Seidel, Post-Tribune staff writer
GARY -- A law requiring all Gary residents to install carbon monoxide detectors in their homes could soon be sent to ...

BREAKING NEWS - Smoke ban sees pub carbon monoxide levels fall
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK
PUBS across North Somerset have seen a massive reduction in carbon monoxide in the air following the introduction of the Government smoking ban. ...

Gas leak sends workers to hospital
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
Nine people were hospitalized early Friday following a carbon monoxide leak at a meatpacking plant on the Northwest Side. Emergency crews responded to the ...

Young friends avert ‘silent killer’
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island, NY, USA
Soon, the trio pinpointed the source -- the carbon monoxide detector placed in the basement near the hot water heater. “I yelled, ‘We have to get out,’” ...

Carbon monoxide leak sends 15 to hospital
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Fifteen employees were taken to hospital after a carbon monoxide leak at a grocery distribution centre in Whitby last night. Workers complained of headaches ...

Blacksburg Carbon Monoxide Leak
WSLS.com - Roanoke, VA, USA
The tenants’ carbon monoxide detector went off and luckily no one was hurt. We're told that water heater is being replaced today. Chief Keith Bolte says the ...

6 suffer carbon monoxide poisoning at Tempe condo complex
AZFamily (subscription) - Phoenix, AZ, USA
The Tempe Fire Department said a running generator inside a unit at a Tempe condominium complex is to blame for six cases of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

4-H Club doles out detectors: Sunshine group distributing carbon ...
4-H :: 4HUSA.ORG - http://4husa.org/
The group of approximately 120 kids are trying to make homes safer by giving away free carbon monoxide detectors to area residents. “We're trying to save people's lives,” said 11-year-old McKenzie Ivory. “A lot of people don't know ...

Free Carbon Monoxide Detectors
WHSV - Harrisonburg, VA, USA
The Harrisonburg Fire Department will be installing 200 carbon monoxide detectors for the community free of charge. The detectors are first come, ...

Leak forces evacuation of Orland Park business
Chicago Daily Southtown - Chicago, IL, USA
By Isaac Wolf Staff writer A carbon monoxide leak Wednesday afternoon sent 15 employees of an Orland Park business to area hospitals. ...

Kane officials: Leave generators outside
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora, IL, USA
“Fire companies entered the home and discovered extremely high levels of carbon monoxide,” said Carpentersville Fire Chief John Schuldt. ...

CNG switch has reduced city pollution
Times of India - India
That has meant they emit 55 tonnes less of carbon monoxide every year. Besides, the significant drop in carbon monoxide levels, particulate matter in taxi ...

Carbon monoxide leak at another Blacksburg apartment complex
Roanoke Times - Roanoke, VA, USA
By Annie Johnson A carbon monoxide leak at a Blacksburg apartment complex Wednesday night caused residents to be evacuated. The incident occurred at 617 Lee ...

Modern engines burn cleaner
Globe and Mail - Canada
The catalytic converter gets most of the credit with respect to carbon monoxide. CO is a colourless, odourless, tasteless and particularly harmful gas left ...

CO Victims Released From Hospital
WSET - Lynchburg, VA, USA
Blacksburg, VA - An update to that Carbon Monoxide leak that left five Virginia Tech students in the hospital. The final two girls in the hospital have been ...

400 homes at centre of probe after carbon monoxide scare
The Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
An investigation is being carried out on almost 400 homes over concerns carbon monoxide may be leaking from gas central heating systems. ...

Detectors ‘would cut number of gas deaths’
ic Huddersfield.co.uk - Huddersfield, England, UK
by Hazel Ettienne TEN-YEAR-OLD Dominic Rodgers was poisoned by carbon monoxide at his Fartown home in February 2004. His tragic death highlighted the ...

Killer gas claimed my fiancee
ic Huddersfield.co.uk - Huddersfield, England, UK
by Hazel Ettienne
A HUDDERSFIELD-BORN man is recovering from brain injuries caused by the carbon monoxide poisoning which killed his fiancee. ...

Three found dead in Glen Park home
Munster Times - Munster, IN, USA
BY JEFF BURTON and RUTHANN ROBINSON
GARY | Carbon monoxide poisoning may have killed three people found dead in their Glen Park home Monday morning. ...

Fumes force evacuation of Hurley's
Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville/Henry County, VA, USA
By BULLETIN STAFF REPORTS - A carbon monoxide scare at Hurley's Pub in uptown Martinsville on Monday was traced to a man using the wrong piece of equipment ...

St. George family of 4 hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT, USA
GEORGE -- A family of four was hospitalized Saturday after dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in their home. ...

Unpredictable Weather Brings Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Risks
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby, NA, Sweden
August 24, 2007 -- The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is urging residents to be aware of the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning when using ...

Dangerous Gases On The Lake
KOMU-TV - Colombia, MO, USA
Every year, people die or are injured on the water from carbon monoxide poisoning from boat generators and exhaust pipes. The lake averages about two carbon ...

Fire safety for students
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville, VA, USA
And there's yet another safety concern that's of newly recognized importance: the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. As school reopened at Virginia Tech ...

Report: Sago barricades not air-tight
Times-West Virginian - Fairmont, WV, USA
The miners were already in “bad air” before they barricaded, subject to the disorientation and sickness-causing effects of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

Schedule a furnace tuneup now and beat the autumn rush
Kansas City Star - MO, USA
Furnace contractors also check for cracks in the heat exchanger that may let carbon monoxide escape. They may test carbon monoxide detectors (your home ...

Area colleges use alarms, detectors and more to keep students safe
Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island, IL, USA
Augustana has alarms and smoke detectors in all of its campus buildings, but does not have carbon monoxide detectors in some residence halls because they ...

Close call for Cherry Hills Village family
cw2.com - Denver, CO, USA
Carbon monoxide levels within the home were dangerously high. "We were getting levels of 200 parts-per-million in the house and in the garage over 1500 ...

Carbon monoxide injures 6 in S. Dade
MiamiHerald.com: Breaking News - http://MiamiHerald.com/news/breaking_news/index.xml
Six people were rushed to area hospitals Friday morning after inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide fumes, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Postville death blamed on carbon monoxide
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo, IA, USA
POSTVILLE (AP) --- The dead man discovered in a flooded basement drowned after being overcome by carbon monoxide, according to a medical expert. ...

City man gets probation for CO close call
Lebanon Daily News - Lebanon, PA, USA
The generator was placed in the basement with “precious little ventilation,” and carbon monoxide built up, Deiderick said. Torres-Cosme had borrowed the ...

Apartment Turns Off Gas
WSLS.com - Roanoke, VA, USA
by Ashley Roberts (aroberts@wsls.com) / WSLS NewsChannel 10
The Blacksburg apartment complex where almost two dozen people were sickened by carbon monoxide ...

Air Pollution Linked To Premature Birth In Pregnant Women
Original Signal - Transmitting Science - http://science.originalsignal.com
Women who lived in regions with high carbon monoxide or fine-particle levels -- pollution caused mainly by vehicle traffic -- were approximately 10 to 25 percent more likely to have a preterm baby than women who lived in less polluted ...

Restaurant Carbon Monoxide Scare
VAFireNews.com News Feed - http://vafirenews.wordpress.com
Reported by Matt Talhelm, August 22, 2007
Fire officials shut down the Staunton Applebee's after several people ...

Carbon monoxide victim upgraded from fair to good
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg, VA, USA
By Lindsay Key and Amanda Codispoti One of the five Virginia Tech students hospitalized since Sunday after a carbon monoxide leak at a Blacksburg apartment ...

Carbon monoxide alarms distributed [VIDEO]
Daily Press - Newport News, VA, USA
BY KIM O'BRIEN ROOT | 928-6473
But this time, state fire officials are pushing the importance of carbon monoxide alarms, which can detect ...

Carbon-monoxide detectors cheap, lives aren't
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond, VA, USA
Frank M. Ruff Jr. had one thought when he heard about Sunday's carbon monoxide leak, which hospitalized five Virginia Tech students: “Not again! ...

Stay Safe From Carbon Monoxide
CBS News - New York City, NY, USA
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that can cause sudden illness and death, by taking the place of oxygen in a person's bloodstream, ...

Carbon Monoxide, The Silent Killer, Stalks College Campuses
Daily Green - USA
Experts point out that the carbon monoxide leak that sickened nearly two-dozen Virginia Tech students and others earlier this week should serve as a warning ...

Officials: Be cautious of carbon monoxide
Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville/Henry County, VA, USA
By SHAWN HOPKINS - Bulletin Staff Writer The hospitalization of 19 people, including two critically injured Virginia Tech students, due to a carbon monoxide ...

Carbon Monoxide: Odorless Killer
WSET - Lynchburg, VA, USA
Across the ABC 13 Viewing Area - Carbon Monoxide is the odorless killer. And can sneak up on you before you know it. So just how damaging is the gas? ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Q & A
DukeMedNews.org Latest News - http://www.dukemednews.org/
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Q & A What is carbon monoxide (CO)? Whenever anything is burned, such as charcoal, propane, gasoline or kerosene, carbon dioxide is released as a part of the combustion process. However, if during this burning ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
BitterEnd - http://captrichardrodriguez.blogspot.com/
By Capt. Richard J. Rodriguez(Capt. Richard J. Rodriguez)
The owners were suffering from a severe case of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. The female need to air lifted to Seattle's Harborview Hospital for treatment. The exhaust rolled up from the dingy to the covered fly bridge. click to enlarge ...

Nausea was the first sign of danger.
Roanoke Times - Roanoke, VA, USA
“I'm going to have a carbon monoxide detector for the rest of my life, I know that,” she said. She said Tech's Cook Counseling Center has sent e-mails to ...

Update: Blacksburg Carbon Monoxide Leak Sends Many to Hospitals
ABC 13 News - http://www.wset.com
We have more on the carbon monoxide poisoning in Blacksburg in which investigators believe was caused by a faulty gas hot water heater. And we have the names of those affected.

Two firefighters killed in Deutsche Bank building fire
Michael Moore - This Just In - http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/
Authorities say the two who died Saturday got trapped on the 14th floor, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Bloomberg said six other firefighters were taken to the hospital, but are expected to be released. No civilian injuries were ...

Oxygen Ran Out Quickly in 14-Story Climb to the Fire
New York Times - United States
City officials said both firefighters were overcome by carbon monoxide, and their hearts soon became casualties. “They were found right away, and they were ...

Woodward youths improve
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines, IA, USA
Officials blame a carbon-monoxide leak. By NIGEL DUARA Flashing emergency lights and running firefighters crossed Janet Landry's television screen Friday ...

Missoula makes it off the dirty air list
The Missoulian - Missoula, MT, USA
After years of working to cut back on carbon monoxide emissions, the City-County Health Department announced Friday that Missoula has finally been taken off ...

Tobacco Use Rise in Youth
Continuum Wellness - http://continuumwellness.wordpress.com
By continuumwellness
Cigarette smoke contains more 4000 chemicals (cyanide, formaldehyde, DDT, acetylene, ammonia) including 69 known carcinogens as well as poisonous gases such as nitric acid and carbon monoxide. This product is created to be deadly. ...

Manhole explosion, gas leak shakes up Greenburgh block
The Journal News / Lohud.com - Westchester, NY, USA
By NICOLE NEROULIAS GREENBURGH - Eiler Lane residents were assured of their homes' safety after a sewer manhole explosion leaked carbon monoxide gas onto ...

Carbon Monoxide Fumes May Have Overcome Five In Hebron House
WCPO - Cincinnati, OH, USA
As many as five people have been taken to the hospital from a house in Hebron, after apparently being overcome by what police suspect were carbon monoxide ...

Many Sides of 'Generator' Usage
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
Carbon monoxide with it's attendant deadly fumes and poisonous gasses. These are a pathetic results of the rapidly increasing use of electric generator of ...

City of Anchorage considers extinguishing I/M vehicle testing
KTUU - Anchorage, AK, USA
The city says the I/M inspection program is the reason we all breathe easier, but Anchorage hasn't exceeded carbon monoxide levels in 10 years. ...

RFD urges citizens to be aware of carbon monoxide dangers
OurValley.org - Roanoke, VA, USA
August is National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month, and the Radford Fire and Rescue Department is sponsoring an awareness and protection campaign to help ...

Carbon monoxide found in Towson high-rise
Baltimore Sun - United States
An underground electrical cable apparently caught fire, causing carbon monoxide - an odorless gas - to leak into ductwork of the high-rise, fire officials ...

Woman found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
TUSCALOOSA | Firefighters found an elderly woman dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at her home on Hollow Lane in the Reston Place subdivision Sunday ...

Housing group installs poison fume alarms
The Northern Echo | Top Stories - http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
LIVES could be saved after a housing association agreed to fit 13000 carbon monoxide alarms at all its North-East properties.

Towson apartment complex evacuated
Baltimore Sun - United States
G. Sentementes | Sun reporter 9:02 AM EDT, August 15, 2007 Baltimore County fire officials were investigating a carbon monoxide leak that forced the ...

DTE exec tells how a simple device would have saved his son
Detroit Free Press - United States
27, when, while staying in Room 416 at the Doubletree Hotel in Key West, both men suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. Richard Lueders, who was overcome by ...

Draft air permit to get public comment soon
Indianapolis Star - United States
WHITING, Ind. -- Carbon monoxide emissions from the BP oil refinery in Lake County will rise significantly under a final draft air pollution permit that's ...

Keeping That Cooler in Tip-Top Shape
Signal - Santa Clarita, CA, USA
As part of their inspections, Lucas said, his technicians also perform safety checks to look for carbon monoxide coming from heaters and possible ...

Flood cleanup, food handling tips
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
These washers can produce lethal amounts of carbon monoxide and should only be used if the engine itself remains outside. Furnaces affected by flooding can ...

New weapon in the fight against blood doping
Play the Game - Aarhus, Denmark
With this method, athletes inhale a small amount of carbon monoxide before and after a competition. The odourless gas is able to tie itself more than 200 ...

Fire agencies warn of carbon monoxide's danger
Stafford County Sun - Stafford, VA, USA
By TRACY BELL A carbon monoxide scare aboard a boat in Maryland's waters has prompted local public-safety officials to remind the public of its very real ...

City cited for unsafe public works garage
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield, IL, USA
The department issued the citation Tuesday, saying that city workers were exposed to more than double the maximum allowed level of carbon monoxide in an ...

Three Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At State College Hotel
WJACtv.com - Johnstown, PA, USA
A State College hotel was evacuated Tuesday night after police said three people were overcome by carbon monoxide near the pool. The incident happened just ...

Carbon monoxide leak prompts evacuation, downtown street closures
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
A carbon monoxide leak that prompted street closures and the partial evacuation of a downtown building has been secured Tuesday afternoon. ...

Council tenants' carbon monoxide fear
Sunderland Echo - UK
By Rob Freeth
A council has been accused of putting lives at risk by failing to repair carbon monoxide alarms. Some tenants of Durham City Council have been ...

Landlords warned: Test gas appliances
BHL - Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK
Corgi reports that the warning comes after ten tenants were taken to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning at three flats. ...

Utah Accident Highlights Health Hazards of Mining
FOX News - USA
In one of the worst mining accidents of modern times, 12 miners on a 13-member crew died of carbon monoxide poisoning following the Jan. ...

Two hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning
News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO, USA
Two St. Louis residents were overcome by carbon monoxide Sunday morning in a houseboat in which they were sleeping. Richard and Mary Reichert had spent the ...

Carbon Monoxide Injures 9 On Boat Near Brooklyn
WCBS-TV New York - NY, USA
Several people were hospitalized after being overcome by carbon monoxide in a boat. It was a danger no one aboard this Cabin Cruiser could see, ...

Carbon monoxide to blame for deaths in Carbon St. fire
News 10 Now - Syracuse, NY, USA
SYRACUSE, NY -- The Syracuse Fire Department says carbon monoxide was to blame for the deaths of three people in a fire Thursday. It happened on Carbon ...

Rally co-driver cops monoxide poisoning
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A New Zealand car enthusiast's determination to reach the finish line in a rally has resulted in a nasty case of carbon monoxide poisoning after he ...

Construction Workers Injured By Carbon Monoxide
KCTV5 News - Kansas City, MO, USA
The next, they were close to death after nearly being poisoned by carbon monoxide Thursday afternoon. Painter Nicholas Fitzpatrick said that at first he ...

Carbon Monoxide Sickens 9 on Team Bus
ABC News - USA
AP Carbon monoxide seeped into a volleyball team's bus as it traveled through southern Wisconsin, sickening nine people, including three girls who were ...

Breathing toxic
Jakarta Post - Jakarta, Indonesia
Those living in and around Jakarta would be among the most vulnerable -- as one expert said, we inhale more carbon monoxide in a car moving slower than 30 ...

One dead and seven hurt due to carbon monoxide in Mastic Beach
Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA
Carbon monoxide meters detected 500 parts per million of the odorless gas in the home -- the highest level possible on the Mastic Beach Fire Department's ...

Senator pushes CO detector law
Beaver County Times - Beaver County, PA, USA
ROCHESTER - The March deaths of a Vanport Township couple might have been prevented had carbon monoxide detectors been installed at the Rochester ...

Wales carbon monoxide danger
News Wales - Knighton, UK
Wales is one of four regions in the UK where people are more likely to suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning. Llanelli AM Helen Mary Jones today expressed ...

Plaintiffs drop case involving OU, carbon monoxide leak
Athens Messenger - Athens, OH, USA
A lawsuit against Ohio University and a local real-estate owner relating to a 2004 carbon monoxide leak has been dismissed by the plaintiffs, according to ...

Fumes from idling car nearly kill elderly Vernon couple
Times Colonist - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Carbon monoxide levels in the residence were so high that paramedics were also placed on oxygen after the rescue. Vernon RCMP say it would have taken only a ...

Suit faults generator fumes for campers' deaths
Southeast Texas Record - Beaumont, TX, USA
By Michelle Massey While sleeping in a camper attached to a pickup truck, Dalton Ray Howell and Douglas Ray Curry were “overcome” with carbon monoxide fumes ...

Bellevue Family Reports Carbon Monoxide Leak
KETV.com - Omaha, NE, USA
Initial tests did not show a high level of carbon monoxide gas but crews had already started ventilating the house before the readings were taken.

Towering experiment
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs, CO, USA
But tracking carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere by city and region has been left to computer models, using weather patterns and other ...