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Missing Carbon Monoxide Alarm Results in $3.25 Million Judgment
In The NewsTenant 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…
Power's return could take weeks in Ky., Ark.
In The NewsDate: 1/29/2009By KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated Press WriterPADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long…
Islanders who insisted on staying died in Ike
In The NewsDate: 10/4/2008 1:58 PMBy MONICA RHORAssociated Press WriterGALVESTON, Texas (AP) _ The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn't like the others, the ones that left…
Spring is not the End of the Carbon Monoxide Season
In The NewsAs the weather improves, the impression might be that risk of Carbon monoxide exposure is lessening. While in terms of total numbers such might be the case, spring and summer do come with significant risk factors for CO poisoning. Seriously,…
Another Pennsylvania Carbon Monoxide Exposure
In The NewsIt is probably just the perception from what makes the national news, but Pennsylvania seems to be the hardest hit this winter for Carbon Monoxide poisoning. The latest story to make news on Carbon monoxide exposure takes place in Altoona,…
Carbon Monoxide Death Lost in Political Shuffle
In The NewsAs all eyes in the political spectrum turned to Ohio, and the plight of Youngstown is on every politician's tongue, a man from nearby Vienna, Ohio quietly dies from carbon monoxide poisoning. In the wake of his death, paramedics put out a call…
Carbon Monoxide and Boating?
In The NewsIt is winter, below zero here in Wisconsin this week, and I am warning about boating and carbon monoxide? As I joked to a friend who asked me about sailing - the water is a little hard right now. Still, the carbon monoxide story of the day…
Winter Kills - Carbon Monoxide Claims Many More
In The NewsThis winter of 2008, there have been two well publicized mass shootings in my part time home state of Illinois, and many more mass killings from Carbon Monoxide. Even the election cycle news had to take a pause for the Northern Illinois tragedy.…
Boilers and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
In The NewsThe temperature is plummeting in the upper midwest, and the number of carbon monoxide poisoning cases is skyrocketing. This time it was Libertyville, IL. One man dead. The culprit, a malfunctioning hot water boiler for a car wash, in an enclosed…
Two More Dead
In The NewsTwo more days, two more dead, and one in critical condition: The bodies of two Chickasaw, Alabama residents were removed from a home after apparently being poisoned by carbon monoxide. Click here for the breaking news.
And Again - Hotel without Carbon Monoxide Detectors
In The NewsIt is three days since my last rant about hotels and carbon monoxide detectors, and once again 17 more people are hospitalized with dangerous carbon monoxide levels at a hotel. A hotel which is part of a national chain, a chain that does not…