A reporter for WINK-TV in Florida was almost killed by carbon monoxide poisoning last Friday when he was out on assignment, according to the website TVSpy. Nick Spinetto was out in the field, working in a live truck to finish up a story for the Fort Myers-Naples CBS affiliate’s early 4 p.m. newscast. But he suddenly began to feel […]
It looks like authorities in Pennsylvania are taking a hard line with the owners of a grocery story that was using a generator indoors, emitting carbon monoxide fumes that killed two men in a second-floor apartment Friday. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/121058718.html Officials in the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office have ruled that the deaths of Ernesto Huerta, 57, and Stephen […]
Here is a potentially life-saving tip: Make sure your carbon monoxide detectors, as well as your smoke detectors, have batteries that are working. That might have averted this scary situation on Cape Cod. Eleven people nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning Friday night in an incident in Nantucket, Mass., according to several press reports. href=”http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/04/16/cops_nantucket_co_poisoning_puts_11_in_hospital/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Massachusetts+news”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/04/16/cops_nantucket_co_poisoning_puts_11_in_hospital/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Massachusetts+news The […]
Two recent deaths in a Jersey City, N.J., apartment building were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, according to The Jersey Journal. http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1302157523245801.xml&coll=3 This story has several particularly tragic twists. If authorities had figured out the cause of the first death more quickly, perhaps they could have prevented the second one. And the carbon monoxide alarms that could […]
How many times has this tragedy played out this winter, one of the worse the country has seen in many years? Four people, a mother and her three children, died of carbon monoxide poisoning last week in Toledo, Ohio. http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=8029564&pt=print They were living in a rented house with no heat or electricity, and were using a gas-powered […]
Carbon monoxide poisoning took the lives of two cousins, one who had been celebrating his birthday, and two pit bulls in South Milwaukee this weekend, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/117962754.html Authorities ruled the deaths of Juan Vasquez, who turned 29 on Saturday, and his cousin Noe Ramirez-Abriz, 28, as accidental. Their cousin had lent them […]
A Minnesota man was discovered dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in his cabin in western Wisconsin last week, according to press reports. http://www.startribune.com/local/117647318.html Gene Prekker, 60, of St. Paul, Minn., was found in his cabin in Cameron, Wis., by his sister last Tuesday morning. Police found a pipe with a small explosive in it […]
Four family members, one found semi-conscious, were hospitalized in Neenah, Wis., Tuesday for carbon monoxide poisoning. One of the family’s cats was killed by the lethal gas. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110308/APC0101/110308032/4-hospitalized-1-cat-dead-after-carbon-monoxide-poisoning?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|APC-News The victims were exposed to the potentially lethal carbon monoxide gas in their home in the 200 block of Grant Street. The four, whose identities weren’t immediately known, were […]
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 […]