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 […]
A man and his 4-year-old son were found dead in their home in Yorkville, Ill., apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Beacon News. http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/15966912-418/coroner-carbon-monoxide-factor-in-boy-fathers-death.html On Friday the Kendall County Coroner said that an autopsy determined that Joseph Schmitt, 35, and his son Wyland had both breathed “a significant” amount of carbon monoxide, […]
Well, let’s hope the death of Virginia Brecheisen, an 82-year-old woman from East Stroudsberg, Pa., will guarantee passage of a law requiring carbon monoxide detectors to be installed in many homes. That was sentiment expressed by a writer for the Pocono Record in the wake of Brecheisen’s death last Thursday at her home on Kistler […]
The Sears in a mall in Jersey City, N.J., Tuesday was evacuated after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in the store, according to The Jersey Journal. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/10/sears_at_newport_centre_mall_i.html In a rather weird happenstance, the Jersey City Fire Department had just entered the store at the Newport Centre mall to conduct a routine fire inspection […]
An autopsy has determined that a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student died of carbon monoxide poisoning following a fire his apartment in that Wisconsin city, according to the Pioneer Press. http://www.twincities.com/wisconsin/ci_21741980/eau-claire-fire-stillwater-township-resident-died-carbon Ross Livermore, 21, of Stillwater Township, was one of two students who were killed as the result of a fire last Monday morning in […]
One man died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and a second was in critical condition, Sunday after an apparent leak of the deadly gas at an apartment complex in Colorado Springs, according to The Gazette. http://www.gazette.com/articles/monoxide-145635-one-critical.html The incident happened at the Peak Vista Apartments on Potter Drive, where local firefighters responding to a 911 call found […]