Entries by Attorney Gordon Johnson

65 children sickened by carbon monoxide in China

Date: 12/25/2008 7:29 AM BEIJING (AP) — Sixty-five elementary school students in northern China were poisoned by carbon monoxide after smoke from a dormitory boiler seeped into their rooms, state media reported Thursday. Nineteen were still being treated in hospitals in Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Meng Lei, a regional health official, […]

Carbon monoxide sends 29 to Wash. state hospital

Date: 12/16/2008 11:00 PM BC-Carbon Monoxide,2nd Ld-Writethru/221 BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Nearly 30 people at a seafood business were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said Tuesday. Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd said they were overcome by fumes at the Homeport Seafoods cold storage business. The fire department responded to a call Tuesday morning about […]

Brown cloud back above Phoenix as temps drop

Date: 11/14/2008 PHOENIX (AP) _ Cooler weather has created ideal conditions for the return of the seasonal brown pollution cloud over the Phoenix metropolitan area. Visibility was rated as poor Thursday by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality although pollution levels did not climb high enough to trigger a health watch or warning. State air-quality […]

Worker on barge traveling near New Haven dies

Date: 11/8/2008 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ The Coast Guard says a 52-year-old barge worker has died after being found unresponsive on the ship as it traveled near New Haven Harbor. Coast Guard Lieutenant Ellen Phillips says it appears that John Campagno died of carbon monoxide poisoning. An autopsy is planned. Crew members on the […]

Families settle with utility over Texas wildfire

Date: 11/8/2008 By ANGELA K. BROWNAssociated Press Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ An attorney says more than 100 families have settled a lawsuit with a utility whose damaged equipment sparked a devastating wildfire. Attorney Bill Altman says the last of five settlements with Oncor was finalized this week. He says the total is “substantially” […]

Restaurant fire likely started by cigarette

Date: 11/1/2008 GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) _ A fire that destroyed the Golden Corral restaurant here Wednesday was likely started by a cigarette or a match that was thrown in the trash, authorities said. Doug Bennyhoff, fire marshal for Great Falls Fire/Rescue, said investigators determined the fire started in an area where employees regularly smoked. […]

Cigar blamed for apartment fire, injury

Date: 10/31/2008 12:35 PM WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) _ Authorities say a cigar appears to have started a chair on fire, damaging a West Fargo apartment and injuring the tenant. Fire Chief Roy Schatschneider says 61-year-old Leslie Moore had been sitting in the chair in the living room smoking a cigar before the fire on […]