CO News - March 2007

Carbon Monoxide is Everybody’s Business

Saturday-Monday, March 31-April 2, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Woman, kids treated for inhaling carbon monoxide gas
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ, USA
MIDDLETOWN — Three children and a woman were treated at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank on Friday for carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

Family's close call inspires church to give away detectors
Flint Journal - Flint, MI, USA
In January, four members of a family that attends North End Baptist Church were rushed to the hospital when they were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes in ...

Pemberton gives COT ‘A-minus’
ThatsRacin.com - USA
“It's additional heat goes into the cockpit, it’s the possibility of carbon monoxide entering the cockpit. …There were more exhaust failures than we need to ...

Poisoning sends seven to the hospital
Lebanon Western Star - Lebanon, OH, USA
HAMILTON — Seven people were taken to Fort Hamilton Hospital early this morning after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Hamilton police ...

CO poisoning sends 6 photog to hospital
By Roger Simmons(Roger Simmons)
Orlando TV News - http://www.rogersimmons.com/tv/index.html
Scott Schroeder, a photographer for WKMG, suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning inside a Local 6 live truck earlier this week while on assignment in Cocoa Beach. NewsBlues.com reports that Schroeder was found sitting upright in the ...

Researchers explain carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects
eMaxHealth - Health News - http://www.emaxhealth.com
Study is raising the possibility for the development of new anti-inflammatory therapies, one of which may be low levels of inhaled carbon monoxide.


Friday, March 30, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Harvard and U. Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon monoxide's ...
AND - Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
By (AND) - www.andnetwork.com. In a study appearing in The FASEB Journal (April 2007), scientists from Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh have shown ...

OC Council Moves Ahead With CO Detectors For Homes
The Dispatch - Ocean City, MD, USA
The new code states, “Every dwelling unit shall be provided with a listed carbon monoxide detector(s), installed in accordance with the manufacturers ...

Warmer weather doesn’t stop dangers of carbon monoxide
Marietta Times - Marietta, OH, USA
PARKERSBURG — Although many people are shutting down their furnaces with the coming of spring, local fire officials say the dangers of carbon monoxide are ...


Thursday, March 29, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Five Children, Two Adults Overcome By Carbon Monoxide
WCPO - Cincinnati, OH, USA
Emergency crews took seven people to the hospital Thursday morning after they reportedly got sick from inhaling carbon monoxide. ...

Carbon monoxide sickens workers, prompts evacuation
Canoe.ca - Canada
A downtown seniors' residence was partially evacuated yesterday after two workers, a father and son, became ill from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. ...


Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon monoxide detectors to be mandatory for all OC homes
Delmarva Daily Times - MD, USA
OCEAN CITY — The town will soon mandate all single-family dwellings have carbon monoxide detectors after voting to amend the building code at Tuesday’s work ...

Legislature: Day 22 at a glance
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach, FL, USA
Hotel carbon monoxide detectors: A Michigan executive pleaded with a Senate panel to require carbon monoxide detectors in Florida hotels, after his adult ...

Carbon monoxide levels 100 times higher than safe
nwitimes.com - Munster, IN, USA
HOBART | The carbon monoxide level in the Arc BRIDGES group home where a woman died Saturday was about 100 times higher than what is considered safe. ...

Swansea fights the silent killer
News Wales - Knighton, UK
Swansea Council Energy Advice Centre has been inundated with interest in a new initiative to help protect residents from carbon monoxide poisoning. ...


Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

OC to weigh monoxide detectors expansion
Delmarva Daily Times - MD, USA
OCEAN CITY -- The Ocean City Town Council is scheduled to discuss whether all existing single-family dwellings should be required to have carbon monoxide ...

Officials blame hot water tank for CO death
/news/lake County from www.nwitimes.com - http://www.nwitimes.com/
HOBART | A missing flue for a hot water tank seems to be the cause of a fatal carbon monoxide leak Saturday at a group home in Hobart.

Three dead from carbon-monoxide poisoning
China Post - Taipei, Taiwan
Two executives from Toshiba and a seven-year-old girl were found dead in Taipei City yesterday in a suspected case of carbon-monoxide poisoning, ...

Student illness probe continues
The Republican - Springfield, MA, USA
SPRINGFIELD - A few of the Central High School students who got sick on a bus trip last week tested positive for low-levels of carbon monoxide exposure, ...

Carbon Monoxide Leak Hospitalizes 6 In Baltimore
WJZ - Baltimore, MD, USA
(AP) BALTIMORE Six people have been hospitalized following a carbon monoxide leak at a Baltimore home. The patients were transported this morning from a ...

Housing bosses launch gas safety campaign
East London Advertiser - London, England, UK
East Thames Group has launched a new Gas Safety campaign to make residents aware of the dangers of Carbon Monoxide. The innovative "Silent Killer" campaign ...


Saturday-Monday, March 24-26, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Bill to enforce gas alarms
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis, MN, USA
as spring approaches, the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning inside homes will decrease, but experts say the soon-to-be required carbon monoxide detectors ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 5 to hospital
Patriot-News - Harrisburg, PA, USA
LEBANON - Five people were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday morning after their house in the Falcon Crest ...

4 Fostoria workers hospitalized for CO poisoning
Tiffin Advertiser Tribune - Tiffin, OH, USA
FOSTORIA — Four Fostoria water treatment plant employees still are recovering following an encounter with carbon monoxide that sent them to the hospital ...

Hobart woman dies in CO poisoning
Munster Times - Munster, IN, USA
HOBART | A 55-year-old woman living in a group home for people with development disabilities died of carbon monoxide poisoning Saturday morning, ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Death Scares Neighbors
WRAL.com - Raleigh, NC, USA
"He puts a meter in the house, and the levels of carbon monoxide are reading at 250 (parts per million)," Pallone said. Health experts said a carbon ...


Friday, March 23, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Law would require carbon monoxide detectors
MiamiHerald.com: Miami-Dade - http://www.miamiherald.com/460/
Miami: Each time a Floridian dies from carbon monoxide poisoning, pressure mounts to require sensor alarms that detect the lethal gas.

One Dead, Three Sick From CO Poisoning
abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, NC, USA
Three other people in an adjacent town home were transported to WakeMed Cary Hospital with symptoms of carbon monoxide poising, according to firefighters. ...


Thursday, March 22, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Meeting set to discuss carbon monoxide level
Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, USA
Residents are invited to an informational meeting about keeping carbon monoxide levels low in the Salem-Keizer area. Carbon mon-oxide is a colorless, ...

Carbon monoxide: Generators can poison you even when they are outside
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi, MS, USA
Van Sickle offers one other important piece of advice: Buy a carbon monoxide detector and keep it operating properly. "It's a $20 investment that will save ...

Homes evacuated for high levels of carbon monoxide
ABC2 News - Baltimore, MD, USA
BALTIMORE - Baltimore Fire officials evacuated residents of seven homes in East Baltimore after high levels of carbon monoxide were found there. ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisons Three China Town Workers
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago, IL, USA
(STNG) CHICAGO Three workers were injured, one critically, after they were exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide at a construction site in Chinatown on ...


Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon monoxide victims treated
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids, MI, USA
BYRON TOWNSHIP -- Eight people were treated for minor symptoms related to a high carbon monoxide level at an adult foster care home Monday, fire officials ...


Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Coroner says carbon monoxide caused death in Whitehall
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A Whitehall man died from carbon monoxide poisoning, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday. Borough police Chief Donald Dolfi said ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning caused death of youth: police
Hindu - Chennai, India
Thiruvananthapuram: The police on Monday said that "chance inhalation" of fatal amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) had caused the death of the three partying ...

Alarms save lives
Boston Globe - Boston, MA, USA
Underground high voltage power lines had ignited, possibly because they had become wet and had shorted, and were sending lethal amounts of carbon monoxide ...

Carbon-monoxide poisoning
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Install a carbon-monoxide detector in your home and check or replace batteries when adjusting clocks for time changes each spring and fall. ...

Four in DC Sickened by Carbon Monoxide
WTOP - Washington, DC, USA
WASHINGTON - Four people traveling with the circus are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after they were found unconscious in a recreational ...

‘I didn't want to wake up dead' Kalamazoo County changes protocol ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo, MI, USA
“Reference the carbon monoxide, do you feel faint, sick, or anything like that?'' a dispatcher at the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department asked Eppstein ...

Department Store Evacuated
Wheeling News Register - Wheeling, WV, USA
BENWOOD ?The Value City Department Store in Benwood was evacuated Sunday afternoon because a carbon monoxide leak made shoppers and employees sick. ...

Hundreds evacuated after underground blaze causes CO poisoning in NY
JEMS.com - San Francisco, CA, USA
A smoldering electrical fire beneath a Brooklyn street sparked carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday, leaving two women unconscious and forcing hundreds of ...


Saturday-Monday, March 17-19, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon Monoxide Leak Sickens Shoppers
WTOV9.com - Steubenville, OH, USA
Once crews got inside, their detection devices quickly picked up high volumes of carbon monoxide coming from a single source. ...

High Carbon Monoxide Level Causes Evacuation Of Brooklyn Buildings
WNBC - New York, NY, USA
NEW YORK -- There were some rattled nerves in Brooklyn Sunday after high carbon monoxide levels forced hundreds of residents from their homes and sent ...

Six sheriff's office employees sickened after carbon monoxide leak
Beatrice Daily Sun - Beatrice, NE, USA
Six Gage County Sheriff's Office employees have filed insurance reports after becoming ill last month due to a carbon monoxide leak at the sheriff's ...

Carbon monoxide: 'Silent killer' can be avoided by checking CO ...
Amador Ledger-Dispatch - Jackson, CA, USA
A colorless, odorless and potentially deadly threat could be lurking in Amador County homes: carbon monoxide gas. According to the US Environmental ...

Free alarms help detect silent killer
Northwest Asian Weekly - Seattle, WA, USA
She added that the language barrier is another challenge when educating immigrants about the dangers of carbon monoxide. ...


Friday, March 16, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

WARREN: High carbon monoxide level in home sends family to hospital
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater, NJ, USA
WARREN -- Three people were hospitalized this morning after they felt dizzy, and firefighters found a high carbon monoxide level in their home, ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning at restaurant
News at Dutchnews.nl - http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/
A gas-powered dishwasher caused last night's incident in a Rotterdam tapas restaurant when 14 people, including six police officers, were taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning. The concentration of the gas was six times the ...

UPDATE! Dozens sent to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning
Capital News 9 - Albany, NY, USA
No serious side effects for close to 40 employees of a Johnstown Food Distributor sent to the hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

Deaths investigated
Beaver County Times - Beaver County, PA, USA
The Beaver County district attorney's office is investigating the deaths of a Vanport Township couple sickened by carbon monoxide fumes at Rochester Manor ...

Ocean City News In Brief
The Dispatch - Ocean City, MD, USA
The City Council recently approved an ordinance to amend the Fire Prevention and Protection code to require the use of carbon monoxide detectors in certain ...


Thursday, March 15, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sends Dozens to the Hospital
WTEN - Albany, NY, USA
Overnight, dozens of employees at a Johnstown food distributing company fell ill from carbon monoxide poisoning, causing the plant to shutdown for the rest ...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
WXXA - Albany, NY, USA
When they arrived, they found CO levels over 6 times higher than what would set off a normal carbon monoxide alarm in the 110000 thousand square foot ...

Family escapes danger after boy hears CO alarm
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta, NY, USA
A problem with a pellet stove in the basement led to a carbon-monoxide leak. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that can poison people or lead to ...

Gas killed three in Macon home, says coroner
Macon Telegraph - Macon, GA, USA
Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning killed three people who were found dead in January at a home on Fairmont Avenue, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said ...

State report: Emergency officials were ignorant of carbon monoxide ...
Seattle Times - Seattle, WA, USA
The state's emergency-management and public-health officials were largely unaware that sickness and death from carbon monoxide poisoning are common after ...

Quick-thinking deputy saves four
The Morning Sun - Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA
Like Schueller though, Chapin said he couldn't figure out where the carbon monoxide was coming from. The furnace, stove and water heater were all electric. ...


Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon Monoxide Leak Forces People Out of Motel
WTVQ - Lexington, KY, USA
On Monday, they were told they have to find a new place to live because of a carbon monoxide leak. So far, 12 of the 19 have left. ...

Neighbors mourn couple killed in carbon monoxide poisoning
Shoreline Times - Guilford, CT, USA
GUILFORD-Neighbors were shocked when reports from officials flowed in about the death of Paul Seaberg, 58 and Shirley Murphy, 54 of carbon monoxide ...

Harvard and University of Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon ...
Click Press (press release) - UK
Specifically, mitochondria react to low levels of carbon monoxide by releasing chemical signals that reduce or shut down the body’s inflammatory response, ...

Senate Passes Bill Requiring Carbon Monoxide Detectors in Public ...
KOTV - Tulsa, OK, USA
The bill requires carbon monoxide detectors in most public buildings like hotels, movie theaters, college dorms and more. News On 6 anchor Craig Day reports ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 3 siblings in Gaziantep
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News - http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/
A leak in a heating pipe emitting carbon monoxide has caused the death of three siblings in Gaziantep.

Green Theory, Green Practice.
By Heather Rae(Neal Dikeman)
Cleantech Blog - http://www.cleantechblog.com/index.html
It is not the price of the chimney that set me off: It was the poor maintenance that could be a health hazard, potentially poisoning people (like me and the previous renters) with carbon monoxide. The HP contractor arrived with an ...


Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Three dead from carbon monoxide poisoning
WSTM-TV - Syracuse, NY, USA
Police Chief David Moore says carbon monoxide is suspected in the deaths, as the house was found to have high levels of the toxic gas. ...

Issues of the day : Power outages: Carbon monoxide, silent killer ...
Vanguard - Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
The point in question emanates from the fact that a petrol or diesel powered generator produces significant amounts of carbon monoxide - a highly toxic gas ...

Monoxide poisoning sends resident to hospital
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester, NY, USA
This comes on the heels of three people being found Sunday in a Remington Street home dead of what the police suspect was carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

Leonard's carbon monoxide scare determined
Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA
A carbon monoxide scare that briefly hospitalized two dozen people at a popular Great Neck catering hall was caused by a small carpet accidentally laid over ...

Weare Family Recovering From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
WMUR - Manchester, NH, USA
"They had just recently had some work done on the heater and they had a feeling it might be carbon monoxide," said Bailey. Officials said a propane heater ...

Carbon monoxide leak sickens 15
LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle, IL, USA
A carbon monoxide leak Saturday night from a water heater pipe at Applebee’s restaurant in Peru sickened as many as 15 people. ...

Bloomberg, FDNY announce battery give away for smoke alarms
EmpireStateNews.net - Newburgh, New York, USA
"In the wake of Wednesday night's tragedy, the message couldn't be clearer - change and test the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors," ...


Saturday-Monday, March 10-12, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon monoxide ends Great Neck party early
Newsday - Long Island, NY, USA
High levels of carbon monoxide forced the evacuation early yesterday of hundreds of guests celebrating Irish heritage at an annual ballroom dance in Great ...

Woman, Two Children Hospitalized in Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
News10.net - Sacramento, CA, USA
A pregnant woman and two children were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas-powered generator producing electricity inside their North ...

3 dead in city house; monoxide present
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester, NY, USA
(March 11, 2007) — Three bodies were found in a Remington Street house with high levels of carbon monoxide this evening, Rochester Police Chief David Moore ...

Get a carbon monoxide detector and perhaps save a life
KOMO - Seattle, WA, USA
Carbon monoxide poisoning sent close to 300 people to local hospitals after December's windstorm knocked out power. Ten people died from CO poisoning. ...

Police say high carbon monoxide levels detected in Guilford house
New Haven Register (subscription) - New Haven, CT, USA
GUILFORD — A man and woman in a partially built house were apparently overcome and killed by carbon monoxide Friday afternoon. ...

Gas leak sickens area man
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI, USA
Port Huron Fire Lt. Mark Kern said the man had been released from the hospital Thursday afternoon after being tested to determine if carbon monoxide caused ...

Weekly hot tips from Westy Fire
YourHub.com - Denver, CO, USA
Firefighters measured the carbon monoxide levels in the home and were surprised to get a reading of 160ppm (over 20ppm is cause for concern). ...


Friday, March 9, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery
College Station News - http://www.cstx.gov
First Alert and BRK Brands have also issued a voluntary recall on some First Alert ONELINK battery powered smoke and combination smoke/carbon monoxide (CO) alarms that may experience a premature low battery condition. ...

Employee injured in gas leak
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI, USA
Firefighters were called to the salon to test the air about 1:30 pm after hospital tests detected carbon monoxide in McNeely's blood. Port Huron fire Capt. ...

Mother, Son Critical After Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia, PA, USA
Fire officials rushed to the home after someone in the home called 911, and tests concluded carbon monoxide was present in the home. ...

City officials learn of possible budget deficit, okay emergency plan
Canton Daily Ledger - Canton, IL, USA
Council approved an ordinance calling for the required use of carbon monoxide detectors in the city. Fire Chief Stanko emphasized that carbon monoxide is ...

Carbon Monoxide Detectors
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City, UT, USA
The Ogden City Council has taken the unprecedented step in Utah of requiring every residence in the city to have a carbon monoxide detector. ...

CO detectors now mandatory
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown, PA, USA
All buildings in Bethlehem with fossil fuel- and wood-burning systems will be required to have carbon monoxide detectors installed thanks to a new law City ...


Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon monoxide case in court (9:16 pm)
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
John Brokie with Provincial Heating and Air Conditioning pointed out cracks and holes in the exchanger that caused the carbon monoxide leak. ...

Firefighters commended for quick action
nwitimes.com - Munster, IN, USA
The carbon monoxide level at the door was 344 parts per million. The average home has a level between one and 30 ppm. ...

Long-term health risks from carbon monoxide exposure are serious
Forest Blade - Swainsboro, GA, USA
Most of us are aware of how deadly acute carbon monoxide poisoning can be. Few people, however, know that new research shows that low level, ...

Snow hikes CO threat
Brookline TAB - Needham, MA, USA
Having snow block exhaust vents outside your home can force lethal carbon monoxide gases back inside a building, said Brookline Fire Lt. Mark Jefferson. ...


Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Three People Taken To The Hospital With Possible CO Poisoning
KIROtv.com - Seattle, WA, USA
An adult and two children have been transported to the hospital after being poisoned by what could be carbon monoxide, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. ...

3 Hospitalized After CO Leak In Vandalia Businesses
WHIOtv.com - Dayton, OH, USA
VANDALIA, Ohio -- Authorities in Vandalia said three people were taken to a local hospital after they began breathing in dangerous levels of carbon monoxide ...

Four Utahns Treated for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
KSL / Local / Local Stories - http://www.ksl.com
Four Utahns have fallen victim to carbon monoxide poisoning.


Saturday-Monday, March 3-5, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Carbon Monoxide From Propane Heater Kills One Man
KSL / Local / Local Stories - http://www.ksl.com
Sleeping with a propane heater on cost a man in Iron County his life.

Safety First column: Carbon monoxide poisioning risk increases in ...
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay, WI, USA
In addition, several thousand individuals are treated in emergency departments for carbon monoxide poisoning. The risk of poisoning increases during the ...

Lafayette County Health Dept. asks residents to monitor CO
Monroe Times - Monroe, WI, USA
Each of these cases was caused by carbon monoxide -- a colorless, odorless, tasteless and potentially lethal gas. Every year, hundreds of people in the ...

Firefighters Warn of Carbon Monoxide Danger
NorthlandsNewscenter.com RSS Feed - http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com
The Duluth Fire Department is urging you to be careful with all the snow around your house or on top of it.

CARBON MONOXIDE AND NATURAL GAS LEAK
KPVI-TV - Pocatello, ID, USA
Firefighters believe it all started at the furnace, which was emitting carbon monoxide and natural gas. Given what happened, it's amazing that's everyone's ...

Family Saved by Carbon Monoxide Detector
FOX 9 News - Minneapolis, MN, USA
It was about 4:00 am when Sharron Peltier heard the carbon monoxide alarm going off. Along with her husband Paul, Sharron checked the detector they just ...

Carbon monoxide sickens four
Cincinnati Enquirer - Kentucky - http://news.enquirer.com
FORT THOMAS - Carbon monoxide poisoning led to a mother and her six-year-old daughter being evacuated from their Fort Thomas home and two children from Ruth Moyer Elementary being taken to the hospital for observation. ...

Mar. 2 - StreetBeat - Carbon Monoxide Scare
City News - Toronto, Canada
Emergency crews were called to a meat-packing plant early Friday morning after an overnight worker collapsed due to carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

Cardiovascular Effects of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Cardiovascular News - http://www.mdlinx.com/EmergencyMDLinx/news.cfm?subspec_id=238
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is an important health problem. Cardiac abnormalities may occur in patients with CO poisoning; however, the severity and duration of cardiac abnormalities are not well known...Conclusion: Despite normal ...

Apartment fire deaths linked to carbon monoxide
hometownlife.com - News-Southfield - http://www.hometownlife.com
The carbon monoxide emitted by an otherwise small and routine fire was quick and deadly, according to the Oakland County Medical Examiner who performed autopsies on the four people killed in a fire at a Southfield apartment.


Friday, March 2, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Keys Hotel Reopens After Carbon Monoxide Death
CBS 4 - Miami, FL, USA
(CBS4) KEY WEST The Key West Hotel that was shut down after a man died from carbon monoxide poisoning reopened on Thursday. The Doubletree Grand Key Resort ...

Mac & cheese with a side of fear & carbon monoxide
Juneau Empire (subscription) - Juneau, AK, USA
Worse, we had a carbon-based heater and no carbon monoxide alarm - a potentially fatal violation of AS 18.70.095 (a). Thanks to all the people who came out ...

New data linked Indonesian wildfire flare-up to recent El Nino
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen, VA, USA
The large plume of pollution from Indonesian fires in November 2006 is clearly visible in this global average map of atmospheric carbon monoxide as measured ...


Thursday, March 1, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.

Extra heat could lead to fire
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen, SD, USA
It sounds like such a simple thing, but people really do need to make sure their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are in working order," said Winter, ...

Carbon monoxide kills two
The State - Columbia, SC, USA
A 61-year-old woman and her 15-month-old granddaughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning a day after electricity was disconnected at their Hartford Street ...

Tunnel Clear of Carbon Monoxide, Asbestos
Wheeling News Register - Wheeling, WV, USA
In addition to the permanent carbon monoxide monitor, portable monitors are now located in different zones of the tunnel, Langen said. ...

Keep your family safe from carbon monoxide poisoning
Lansing State Journal - Lansing, MI, USA
If you heat your home with a furnace or fireplace, or if you have a gas stove, you need to take precautions against carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

9 Hospitalized From Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
WDIV - Detroit, MI, USA
They said they were checking other areas of the home to see if it was carbon monoxide poisoning. So far crews have not gotten any readings for carbon ...

Carbon monoxide investigation continues
Capital News 9 - Albany, NY, USA
That's where Pasquale Perry and his sister, Mary LeClair, were found unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning. According to fire officials, ...

Carbon monoxide kills car camper: Vehicle covered in snow
Sherbrooke Record - Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
In the hours that followed the man lost consciousness and died from carbon monoxide poisoning, undoubtedly released into the car by the burning of the fuel. ...