By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ The ironies of two separate fatal carbon monoxide catastrophes occurring within one room in the Best Western Inn in Boone, North Carolina are numerous. However, at the core of this debate should be the monitoring of such properties, by the national chains that put their brands […]
By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ 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 […]
More than two dozen workers and one firefighter were sent to the hospital for treatment Monday after a carbon monoxide leak at a tortilla chip factory in North Carolina, according to the Gaston Gazette. http://www.gastongazette.com/spotlight/27-workers-1-firefighter-checked-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-at-plant-1.156841 The cause of the apparent leak at the R.W. Garcia plant in Lincolnton was under investigation. Workers at the facility […]
You run a hotel where an elderly married couple died several months ago, and toxicology reports are still pending on their deaths. But carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected. Yet you rent out that same room where they died, and an 11-year-old dies there this weekend. You can’t make this stuff up. In Boone, N.C., Jeffrey […]
More than two dozen people were evacuated from an apartment complex in a suburb of Syracuse, N.Y., Sunday, due to a carbon monoxide leak, according to CNYCentral.com. At least a handful of people were hospitalized, the website reported, adding that it was the second such leak in the past three days. http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=907579#.UbVNGdh9tvR The incident happened […]
A Christmas Day fire in Connecticut killed a 9-year-old girl, her twin 7-year-old sisters and their grandparents. But some good has come of their tragic deaths in 2911. The Nutmeg State’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that mandates that one- and two-family homes have carbon monoxide and smoke detectors in place at the time […]
The El Cortez Hotel in Reno had its second carbon monoxide leak in three weeks, according to KOLO. http://www.kolotv.com/news/headlines/El-Cortez-Hotel-Evacuated-Due-to-Carbon-Monoxide-Leak-209803021.html On Saturday visitors were evacuated from the hotel after a carbon monoxide detector sounded an alert. Several local fire department engines responded to the scene, KOLO said. The visitors were later allowed to return to the […]
In 2012, an 18-year-old Marine died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment in Idaho. There is a lawsuit pending over the death of McQuen Forbush. And information reported last week by the Idaho Statesman may help the plaintiffs in that case. The newspaper got a-hold of internal documents from the former property management company […]
One of the two people who were hospitalized after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday while boating has died, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/30/2527743/woman-dead-nacimiento-lake.html The victim was Sandy Valencia, 23, of Salinas, Calif., according to a press release from the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department. http://www.slosheriff.org/_Press/PRView.aspx The release said that Valencia was […]
A couple that had been boating on Nacimiento Lake in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., was hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday, according to The Tribune News. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/28/2524836/nacimiento-lake-carbon-monoxide.html The man and woman were in their boat’s stern and apparently breathed in exhaust from its engine, the newspaper reported. Sheriff’s deputies were called over to the […]