Sometimes it’s a good thing when relatives stop over, uninvited. Here’s a case in point. Three Hackensack, N.J., residents escaped death from carbon monoxide poisoning Monday when visiting relatives stopped by their house to pay a call on them, according to The Record. http://www.northjersey.com/news/9_treated_for_carbon_monoxide_poisoning_in_Hackensack.html A married couple and their 14-year-old son — after being made ill […]
When are people going to learn this lesson: Don’t use a grill inside your home. On Thanksgiving night 20 people at a party in Chicago got carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Chicago Tribune. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-24/news/chi-20-people-suffer-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-20111124_1_carbon-monoxide-poisoning-thanksgiving-party-area-hospitals And how did they get poisoned by that potentially lethal gas? Someone was using a grill inside a home on West […]
Unfortunately, it’s no surprise that last weekend’s freak snowstorm in the Northeast, which knocked out power for days in New Jersey and Connecticut, would end up killing people. Or perhaps rather, that carbon monoxide would wind up killing people. And so it happened. An elderly couple, Robert Stephens, 84, and his wife Susanna, 79, were discovered dead […]
Here’s why you need carbon monoxide detectors in your dwelling. Nearly a dozen people in New London, Wis., were hospitalized and released Sunday for carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak of the deadly gas in their apartment building, according to The Post-Crescent of Appleton. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20111030/APC0101/111030012/Update-11-hospitalized-after-carbon-monoxide-leak-New-London?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|FRONTPAGE New London firefighters evacuated the 16-unit apartment building at 505 Oakridge […]
A Pennsylvania family got carbon monoxide poisoning last Thursday, the fifth such case in Allegheny County since the start of what local authorities call the heating season, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_764230.html?_s_icmp=NetworkHeadlines# On Thursday emergency personnel were called to a two-story duplex in Wilkinsburg, Pa., when there was a report that someone was suffering from abdominal […]
ADT Security Services Inc. has voluntarily recalled roughly 20,000 carbon monoxide detectors, according to an Oct. 20 press release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12701.html The recalled carbon monoxide detectors fail to properly indicate the end of their useful life, prompting the recall, which ADT voluntarily conducted in cooperation with the CPSC. The CPSC warned consumers to stop using the […]
A man and his granddaughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning last weekend while camping out at a rodeo in Clements, Calif. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110920/A_NEWS/109200312/-1/a_news02 Richard Kovacs, 56, and Jordan Kovacs, 14, were both from Copperopolis. They perished last Saturday night or Sunday morning while sleeping in an area they had marked off at the end of a horse […]
Unfortunately, I expected to see more of these tragic cases in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out power last weekend in a swath from North Carolina to Maine. An elderly couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning last Tuesday in their summer home in Raymond, Maine, with the lethal gas coming from an emergency generator, according […]
Thousands of homeowners in the U. S. purchase backup power generators in case their electrical power is interrupted. A significant and potentially fatal to humans and pets problem continually occurs with each severe storm and the use of gasoline and diesel generators. The problem is that generators emit carbon monoxide. Some generator owners fail to […]
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in the United States, with nearly 500 people succombing to the odorless, colorless gas each year, according to a report issued earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6030a2.htm?s_cid=mm6030a2_x In a comprehensive 10-year report issued Aug. 5, the […]