Missing Carbon Monoxide Alarm Results in $3.25 Million Judgment

Tenant Awarded $3.25 Million for Carbon Monoxide Alarm Violation Failure to Install a carbon monoxide alarm in a rental property has resulted in a $3.25 Judgment against a Stevens Point Landlord, Pamalla Schneider in a March jury trial in Portage…

Two Tenants Above Grocery Store Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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…

Cape Cod Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sends 11 To Hospital

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…

Two Tenants Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In New Jersey As Alarms Sit In The Basement

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…

Mother, Three Children Killed By Carbon Monoxide In Toledo

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…

Two Milwaukee Men, Two Pitt Bulls Die Of Accidental Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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…

Man Dies Of Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Wisconsin Cabin

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…

Four Family Members In Wisconsin Are Treated For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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…

Tell The EPA You Want Stricter Carbon Monoxide Standards

 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…

Snow Can Be Carbon Monoxide's Accomplice In Poisoning People

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…

Three Dozen People Fall Ill From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Banquet Hall

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…