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 — […]
A carbon monoxide leak sickened two people in apartments in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, sending them to the hospital, according to Delaware Online. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012311260057&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1 Right before 10 a.m. an ambulance responded to the building on North Harrison Street, where EMTs initially found one person had been overcome by carbon monoxide, Delaware Online reported. Firefighters were called […]
Carbon monoxide sickened 49 inmates at a jail in York, Pa., with five having to be hospitalized overnight, CNN reported. http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/22/us/pennsylvania-jail-illnesses/index.html Authorities believe that the heating and ventilation system in the county jail’s wing for women was the source of the deadly gas, according to CNN. Female inmates began to feel ill and developed symptoms […]
If the topic wasn’t so serious, the hospitality industry’s arguments about why there is no need for it to install carbon monoxide detectors in hotel rooms would be funny. But death isn’t a laughing matter. The industry tried to justify its inaction in a well-researched story that USA Today just did on why hotel rooms […]
Here’s another tragedy that could have been avoided: A young Marine died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his girlfriend’s apartment, which had a carbon monoxide detector with no batteries in it. McQuen Forbush, 18, was on leave and staying in Meridian, Idaho. He was discovered dead Saturday, from what a coroner determined was carbon monoxide […]
Portable generators are being put to use in New York and New Jersey by those who lost power because of Hurricane Sandy. But I hope no one had bought any of these. On Friday the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a voluntary recall of about 8,600 portable generators made by Champion Power Equipment, based […]
Hurricane Sandy is continuing to kill people on the East Coast. No, I’m not talking about people hit by falling trees, or any one else drowning. I’m referring to carbon monoxide poisoning deaths. So far in New Jersey alone, at least five people have died by being poisoned by the lethal gas, which came from […]