The Environmental Protection Agency has reviewed the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon monoxide, and is proposing to retain them. At least one expert doesn’t think keeping the old rules in place is a good idea, and wants tougher standards. If you agree with him, as I do, you have until […]
With Americans from Dallas to Milwaukee to Boston enduring record snowfalls, here’s a word to the wise: Clear out all the snow from your car tailpipe and from the vents of your home furnaces. http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110203-carbon-monoxide,0,1929248.story There was recently a case in New York City where a mother left her two daughters in her car, which was running, while […]
Roughly three dozen people became sick at a banquet hall in Upstate New York from carbon monoxide poisoning this weekend. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1759157/WBFO.News/Carbon.monoxide.at.banquet.hall.sickens.three.dozen.people The incident took place at the Masonic Community Center on Union Road in Cheektowaga, N.Y., during a fundraising dinner that more than 150 people attended Saturday night. The hall’s carbon monoxide detector went off, […]
A Madison, Wis., woman was hospitalized and treated for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. http://www.channel3000.com/news/26731016/detail.html# Firefighters and paramedics were called to an East Side Madison duplex, address 1027 Jana Lane, at roughly 11 a.m. A neighbor, an Madison Gas & Electric worker, had detected high carbon monoxide levels. A carbon monoxide detector in one unit went off, but […]
The snow storms that have blanketed the New York metro area indirectly almost killed two young girls in the Bronx, N.Y., last week. They came close to dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28carbon.html?scp=1&sq=bronix%20girls%20collapse&st=cse Sisters Brianna Valverde, 4, and Ashlyn Valverde, 7, last Thursday were in their mother’s idling Nissan when they were overcome by carbon monoxide, which came […]
If Wisconsin’s law mandating carbon monoxide detectors had taken effect Jan. 1, instead of Feb, 1, maybe an 88-year-old man and his dog would be alive today. This week Stanley Neckuty of Auburn, Wis., was found in his home Monday by one of his family members. When police also found the body of Neckuty’s dog, […]
Here’s a frightening and tragic lesson for parents: Your own vehicle, especially if it’s an older model, can expose yout young children to carbon monoxide poisoning. That’s what happened last Friday in Kentucky. A 15-month-old died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and her two siblings became sick, while on a trip in their family’s minivan, according to the […]
Here’s a scene that will be played out again and again during the winter when poor people’s electricity is turned off. Four family members were found dead in their Oakhurst, Calif., home Sunday, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17122304?nclick_check=1 The victims were Diana Montoya, 60; Bruce John Frederick Hargett, 35; Alexis Montoya, 10; and Jayden Montoya, […]
A elderly surgeon died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in an Arkansas hunting club last weekend. http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20110112/NEWS01/101120337 Dr. Tom Bell of Harrison, Ark., and William Hicks of Yellville, Ark., were found unconscious Saturday morning in a duck club. Bell, 75, died and Hicks was brought to a Little Rock hospital, where he was in serious condition, according […]
Eleven students and a staff member at a Vermont school were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday, according to the Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603080.html The poisoning took place at a school in Putney, Vt., which was evacuated. The sick students were taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, with some already released and the rest expected to be released. According to AP, 25 […]