Entries by Attorney Gordon Johnson

Another Canine Rescue Averts Carbon Monoxide Fatality

Chalk up another canine rescue of its owner from carbon monoxide poisoning. In fact, it almost seems like dogs have become living detectors of the potentially lethal, ordorless gas. In the latest case, Boston terrier Kayla warned her owner Christy Williamson about the looming danger, according to LifeWithDogs.TV. http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2013/01/dog-saves-owner-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-just-in-time/ Someone, apparently a neighbor, had left […]

January 28, 2013/0 Comments/by

Arkansas Hotel Guests Hospitalized For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

A carbon monoxide leak from a pool heater resulted in five Hampton Inn guests in Arkansas being hospitalized Monday night, and the entire hotel being evacuated, according to the Siloam Springs Daily Leader. http://hl.nwaonline.com/news/2013/jan/22/5-hospitalized-signs-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/?print The incident happened at the inn on U.S. 421 in Siloam Springs, with the first report of carbon monoxide poisoning coming […]

January 23, 2013/0 Comments/by

Upstate New York Man Dies From Carbon Monoxide, Wife Hospitalized

A man in Dale, N.Y., was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday, while his wife remained in the hospital after being overcome by the lethal gas, which apparently came from a furnace, according to The Daily News. http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_7c3e7c88-5f25-11e2-aed3-001a4bcf887a.html The couple, Paul and Annette Kaczmarek, was found in their home around 6 a.m. when a relative […]

January 16, 2013/0 Comments/by

Two Queens Women Critical From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Two women in Queens, N.Y., were hospitalized Monday for carbon monoxide poisoning following a suspected boiler leak, according to WABC-TV. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8944932 The two female victims, one in her 20s and one in her 50s, were overcome by the potentially lethal fumes at a house in Ozone Park shortly before 8 a.m., WABC reported. The victims […]

January 8, 2013/0 Comments/by

Three Die Of Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Michigan

On Christmas Day a couple and an 11-year-old boy died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in Flint, Mich., according to the Associated Press. http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/3-die-of-apparent-carbon-monoxide-poison/e13f74e41b874c809b1d994b7f8a38d5 LeTroy Edwards, 43, Selena Carranza, 37, and her son Jayson Cobbin, 11, were the victims of the accidental poisoning, AP reported. Edwards and Carranza were dead at the scene, while the […]

December 26, 2012/0 Comments/by

Texas Couple Found Dead Of Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

An East Texas couple found dead in their home Tuesday were apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/18/4494525/east-texas-couple-found-dead-carbon.html The victims, Cynthia Pettigrew, 50, and Johnathan Lydia, who was about to celebrate his 49th birthday, had a gasoline-powered generator running inside their house in Tyler, Texas, according to authorities. Tyler […]

December 19, 2012/0 Comments/by

Carbon Monoxide Makes 30 Ill At Boston Spa

One can’t help but marvel at the irony: 30 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Saturday at a place in Boston named the Exhale Spa. The ill, who displayed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, were treated at the scene at the spa in the Back Bay section of Boston, according to WHDH.com. http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12009270643270/30-treated-after-carbon-monoxide-leak-at-boston-spa/ Firefighters responded to […]

December 10, 2012/0 Comments/by