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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…

Post-Hurricane Sandy, Five Carbon Monoxide Deaths In New Jersey

Hurricane Sandy is continuing to kill people on the East Coast. No, I'm not talking about people hit by falling trees, or any one else drowning. I'm referring to carbon monoxide poisoning deaths. So far in New Jersey alone, at least five people…

Pennsylvania Woman's Death Could Spur Passage Of CO Alarm Law

Well, let's hope the death of Virginia Brecheisen, an 82-year-old woman from East Stroudsberg, Pa., will guarantee passage of a law requiring carbon monoxide detectors to be installed in many homes. That was sentiment expressed by a writer…

Bill Would Mandate Standards For Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Two U.S. Senators last week introduced legislation that would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) the power to impose stricter standards for carbon monoxide detectors, according to the Echo Press of Alexandria, Minn. http://www.echopress.com/event/article/id/95738/group/homepage/ Amy…

Florida Couple Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Their 29-Foot Cabin Cruiser

In the winter, there are always carbon monoxide fatalities when people use gas generators to warm their homes. In the summer, gas generators used to run air conditioning are often to blame for giving off deadly fumes that kill. Over the…

Carbon Monoxide and Pets

It is very sobering to realize how many people are affected by carbon monoxide every year. These incidents always go up during natural disasters or power outages, like the one affecting so many right now.As much as we hear about carbon monoxide…

Wash. woman dies; carbon monoxide found

January 6, 2009THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDENVER -- Investigators say a boiler vent damaged during a recent windstorm may have led to the high levels of carbon monoxide that left one college student dead.Denver's Chief Deputy Coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras…

7 killed in Philadelphia fire

Date: 12/28/2008 7:52 AMBy KATHY MATHESONAssociated Press WriterPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dozens of Liberian immigrants mourned Saturday at a house where seven members of their community died in a fire that a survivor said started when a kerosene…

65 children sickened by carbon monoxide in China

Date: 12/25/2008 7:29 AMBEIJING (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…

Vent Pipe to Blame in SD Carbon Monoxide Deaths

Date: 11/10/2008BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) _ Authorities in Brookings think a missing vent pipe was to blame in the apparent carbon monoxide poisoning deaths of a man and his daughter found in their home early Sunday.The victims are Grant Holmstrum,…

Worker on barge traveling near New Haven dies

Date: 11/8/2008NEW 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…