By Attorney Gordon Johnson
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NBC News Tuesday did a report about the carbon monoxide case that I just blogged about: three deaths that took place in the same room in a Best Western hotel in Boone, N.C.
The point of the report, and it’s one I should have made, is that when you are traveling this summer and staying at hotels and motels, beware!
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/hotel-room-deaths-raise-carbon-monoxide-concerns-travelers-6C10282724
The case in point involved the death of an 11-year-old boy, Jeffrey Williams, of asphyxiation, at the hotel this weekend. There was carbon monoxide in the room.
In April, an elderly man and his wife — Daryl Jenkins, 73, and Shirley Jenkins, 72, of Washington State — had been found dead in the same hotel room. Toxicology reports had been pending on the cause of their deaths, and yet the Best Western still took the chance of renting out the room where they perished — and where Williams later perished.
As it turned out, the test results came back, and the couple died of asphyxia due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
The room where both Williams and the Jenkins stayed was above space where there is a natural gas heater for an indoor pool.
So be warned. While hotels under state law typically have to install smoke detectors, very few states mandate that hotels install carbon monoxide detectors.
So when you check into a hotel, ask if they have CO alarms. If not, NBC News advises you to keep a window open in your room.
I worked for a hotel in Denver area, Ocean Hospitalities – now Great American Hotel Group that would not fix boilers that the general manager asked to be fixed. My shop was next to a boiler room. In one week, four of us employees ended up in the emergency room, and I spent several days in the hospital. The people in the corporate office with this company could care less about their employees.