To hear Blitz USA Inc. tell it, it is the victim — not the people, and children, who were seriously burned when the company’s gasoline cans exploded in flames. After all, what’s the big deal when a 3-year-old boy is burned over 47 percent of his body, one of 75 cases of victims being killed […]
A bird’s nest was almost lethal in a town in Wisconsin late last Thursday night. Eight people in Dodgeville, Wis., were taken to a hospital after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Associated Press. http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/latest-news/2012/jul/27/8-taken-hospital-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/ Police were called to the scene after someone was reportedly suffering a seizure, AP said. Authorities discovered that residents […]
Here’s a horrendous double-tragedy for you. A Pennsylvania woman a week ago found her husband’s body after he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. The poor wife was then herself killed when she was overcome by the fumes of the lethal, odorless gas, according to the Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice. http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/beaver-twp-woman-finds-husband-dead-dies-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/242213648313485686b5784a637aed11 James Schlack, 44, and his […]
In this case, birds turned out to be man’s best friend. A family in Zion, Ill., cheated death early Friday morning, around 3:30 a.m., when their pet birds began making noise and trying to escape from their cages, according to Lake County News-Sun. A member of the family that worked a night shift came home […]
Could this story be any sadder? An elderly woman and her dog were both found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in her home Thursday in Viera, Fla., according to Florida Today. The woman’s body was in chair, with her dog dead in her lap. http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20120706/NEWS01/120706036/Officials-Viera-woman-dog-dead-carbon-monoxide-poisoning Apparently, Ann Caravan, 85, didn’t have a carbon monoxide detector. […]
Seven people in West Bloomfield, Mich., were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning after running a generator in their home’s garage, according to the Daily Tribune. http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120706/NEWS01/120709720/seven-hospitalized-with-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-%28with-video%29 The incident happened last Tuesday afternoon, when responders were called to a home on Norma Lee Drive, which is near Maple and Drake roads. When firefighters tested inside the […]
Last summer, a man in Ellicott City, Md., died of carbon monoxide poisoning after using a generator when power was knocked out by Hurricane Irene. Local officials are trying to prevent a repeat of that tragedy in the wake of powerful storms Friday that cut off local electricity. Members of the Howard County Department of […]
Two U.S. Senators last week introduced legislation that would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) the power to impose stricter standards for carbon monoxide detectors, according to the Echo Press of Alexandria, Minn. http://www.echopress.com/event/article/id/95738/group/homepage/ Amy Klobucher, D-Minn., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, are pushing for passage of the Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Monoxide […]
Last week in Chicago nine family members were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning after the water heater in their Far South Side home apparently leaked the potentially fatal gas, according to The Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-multiple-victims-sickened-by-carbon-monoxide-in-south-deering-20120616,0,2803753.story On June 16 five ambulances responded to the single-family house on South Hoxie Avenue in the South Deering section of […]
A married couple was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning last Thursday in their apartment in a public housing complex in Portsmouth, Va., according to The Pilot. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/couple-dead-portsmouth-carbon-monoxide-may-be-cause The deaths of Leroy and Inez Stith, both 65, was perplexing because each unit in their Swanson Homes apartment complex has carbon monoxide detectors, the Portsmouth Redevelopment […]