carbon monoxide and hotels Archives - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning https://carbonmonoxide.com/tag/carbon-monoxide-and-hotels Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:18:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://carbonmonoxide.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/comodule-36x36.png carbon monoxide and hotels Archives - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning https://carbonmonoxide.com/tag/carbon-monoxide-and-hotels 32 32 Carbon Monoxide Easily Passes Through Drywall, Study Says https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/08/carbon-monoxide-easily-passes-through-drywall-study-says.html https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/08/carbon-monoxide-easily-passes-through-drywall-study-says.html#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:18:12 +0000 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/blog/?p=1798 A new study has discovered a pretty disturbing, deadly fact: The lethal gas carbon monoxide can pass through gypsum wallboard, better known as drywall. Simply put, your home’s own walls won’t protect you from the poisonous gas that could filter in from a neighbor’s apartment. That’s the topic of a story Forbes published Tuesday headlined […]

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]]> https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/08/carbon-monoxide-easily-passes-through-drywall-study-says.html/feed 0 Va. Hotel Evacuated Due To Carbon Monoxide Leak https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/02/va-hotel-evacuated-due-to-carbon-monoxide-leak.html https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/02/va-hotel-evacuated-due-to-carbon-monoxide-leak.html#respond Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:35:16 +0000 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/blog/?p=1458 A word to the wise for hotel owners: Why don’t you just install carbon monoxide detectors, whether the law requires you to or not? In the latest incident involving a carbon monoxide leak at a hotel, on Wednesday more than 70 people had to be evacuated from a Virginia Beach, Va., hotel because of this […]

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]]> https://carbonmonoxide.com/2013/02/va-hotel-evacuated-due-to-carbon-monoxide-leak.html/feed 0 Hotels Should Do The Right Thing And Install Carbon Monoxide Alarms https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/11/hotels-should-do-the-right-thing-and-install-carbon-monoxide-alarms.html https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/11/hotels-should-do-the-right-thing-and-install-carbon-monoxide-alarms.html#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:52:02 +0000 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/blog/?p=1372 If the topic wasn’t so serious, the hospitality industry’s arguments about why there is no need for it to install carbon monoxide detectors in hotel rooms would be funny. But death isn’t a laughing matter. The industry tried to justify its inaction in a well-researched story that USA Today just did on why hotel rooms […]

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]]> https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/11/hotels-should-do-the-right-thing-and-install-carbon-monoxide-alarms.html/feed 0 Nevada Supreme Court To Consider Legal Issues From Motel Carbon Monoxide Poisoning https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/04/nevada-supreme-court-to-consider-legal-issues-from-motel-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/04/nevada-supreme-court-to-consider-legal-issues-from-motel-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html#respond Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:57:22 +0000 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/blog/?p=1069 The Nevada Supreme Court will be reviewing a case stemming from an incident where four guests of a motel died of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Courthouse News Service. They were killed at the Casino West Motel in Yerington, Nev., in 2006 when fatal fumes from a pool heater filtered into their rooms, whose airways […]

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]]> https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/04/nevada-supreme-court-to-consider-legal-issues-from-motel-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html/feed 0 Sister Of Man Killed By Carbon Monoxide In W.Va. Hotel Lauds State’s New Law https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/04/sister-of-man-killed-by-carbon-monoxide-in-w-va-hotel-lauds-states-new-law.html https://carbonmonoxide.com/2012/04/sister-of-man-killed-by-carbon-monoxide-in-w-va-hotel-lauds-states-new-law.html#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:00:02 +0000 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/blog/?p=1056 Laurie Pendergast is taking action to ensure that her brother’s death wasn’t in vain. The Rhode Island woman is pushing for legislation across many states to mandate that hotels have carbon monoxide detectors, according to a story posted online by the TV station WPRI. http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/providence/ri-woman-initiates-life-saving-law-carbon-monoxide-bill-moran-laurie-pendergast Pendergast’s brother, Bill Moran, earlier this year died of carbon […]

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