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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A New Jersey state senator last week introduced legislation that would require schools in the Garden State to install carbon monoxide detectors, something only required in Connecticut and Maryland now. Sen. Shirley K. Turner, author of a 1999 New Jersey law requiring homes to have carbon monoxide detectors installed, is the sponsor of the new […]
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 […]
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about this kind of thing, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Once again, a vigilant pooch has saved its owner from carbon monoxide poisoning, avoiding tragedy. In the most recent case, the hero was a 4-year-old chihuahua in West Jordan, Utah, according to the Deseret News. […]
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 […]
Washington state has a new law mandating the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in homes that goes into effect Jan. 1, according to the Associated Press and other media reports. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-05/wash-dot-carbon-monoxide-alarm-condition-added-jan-dot-1 The genesis of the new, broader law is pretty interesting. The Legislature amended the state building code when there was a bad windstorm in […]
In a panic-filled scene after several kids passed out, more than 40 elementary school students and six adults in Atlanta Monday morning were rushed to a local hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning, various press accounts reported. According to the story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, children at the Finch Elementary School started to report that they […]
With superstorm Sandy still wreaking havoc, the New York City Department of Health has alerted health care providers to be ready for an uptick of carbon monoxide poisoning and hypothermia cases, according to The New York Times. The health department sent its missive to thousands of doctors, telling them that thousands of city residents — […]