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Two Bronx Girls Almost Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Due To Snow-Clogged Tailpipe

Posted on 31st January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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The snow storms that have blanketed the New York metro area indirectly almost killed two young girls in the Bronx, N.Y., last week. They came close to dying of carbon monoxide poisoning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/nyregion/28carbon.html?scp=1&sq=bronix%20girls%20collapse&st=cse

Sisters Brianna Valverde, 4, and Ashlyn Valverde, 7, last Thursday were in their mother’s idling Nissan when they were overcome by carbon monoxide, which came into the vehicle because its tailpipe was stuffed with snow.

Their mother Jasmine Mendoza had left them in the car while she dug it out of the snow that has piled up on New York City’s streets. When Mendoza peeked in the car 15 minutes later, she saw that both her girls were unconscious, and she called paramedics.

When New York Fire Department medics Charles Washington and Terry Middleton arrived, the two sisters weren’t breathing, according to the New York Daily News. The girls were already getting medical help inside a Bronx Lebanon Hospital ambulance, but Washington and Middleton stepped in and ventilated the youngsters with a handheld device called a Ambu bag, the News reported.

Brianna was almost done for. The medics tried to put an esophageal tube down her throat, to open an airway, but her jaw “was clenched shut,” so they continued to use the Ambu bag on her, the News said. Her hands were so cold that a device used to measure a person’s carbon monoxide level wouldn’t work on her.

Finally, on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, Brianna started breathing. Both she and her sister Ashlyn were treated in a hyperbaric chamber and were released Thursday night.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2011/01/29/2011-01-29_lastgasp_rescue_emts_breathed_life_into_girls_in_idling_car.html

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New Wisconsin Carbon Monoxide Law Is Too Late To Save Elderly Man

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Posted on 28th January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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If Wisconsin’s law mandating carbon monoxide detectors had taken effect Jan. 1, instead of Feb, 1, maybe an 88-year-old man and his dog would be alive today.

This week Stanley Neckuty of Auburn, Wis., was found in his home Monday by one of his family members. When police also found the body of Neckuty’s dog, they suspected carbon monoxide was the cause of the fatalities.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20110127/FON0101/101270422/Man-dies-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning

Authorities looked around the elderly man’s house, and in its basement found an old furnace that they believe was slowly leaking carbon monoxide, slowly poisoning Neckuty.

The tragedy of the elderly’s man’s death is that next Tuesday, Feb. 1, a Wisconsin law goes into effect that requires carbon monoxide detectors to be installed in each level of one-family and two-family homes, including their basements. If that law had been effective earlier, maybe Neckuty would hve put in the CO detectors and lived, along with his pet.

The Green Bay Gazette wrote an editorial urging Wisconsin residents to comply with the law and install the carbon monoxide detectors, to prevent deaths from this silent and odorless killer.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20110127/GPG0602/101270610/Editorial-Law-not-only-reason-to-install-carbon-monoxide-detector

Toddler Dies From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Her Family’s Van

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Posted on 25th January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Here’s a frightening and tragic lesson for parents: Your own vehicle, especially if it’s an older model, can expose yout young children to carbon monoxide poisoning.

That’s what happened last Friday in Kentucky. A 15-month-old died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and her two siblings became sick, while on a trip in their family’s minivan, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/23/AR2011012300005.html

The family was driving on Interstate 64 in Frankfort, Ky., when the parents realized that one of their three children, toddler Brienna Scruggs, was ill. They drove to a local hospital, and all three of the children were unconscious when they arrived there.

Scruggs was pronounced dead later than night, while her two older siblings were given oxygen and then regained consciousness.

Officals said that young children breathe faster than adults and therefire are at more of a risk for carbon monoxide poisoning.

The family had been on its way to Indianapolis from West Virginia.

Four Family Members Killed By Carbon Monoxide In Their California Home

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Posted on 18th January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Here’s a scene that will be played out again and again during the winter when poor people’s electricity is turned off.

Four family members were found dead in their Oakhurst, Calif., home Sunday, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17122304?nclick_check=1

The victims were Diana Montoya, 60; Bruce John Frederick Hargett, 35; Alexis Montoya, 10; and Jayden Montoya, 8, according to the Associated Press.

A sheriff’s department official said that carbon monoxide fumes from a gas-powered generator did in the family, whose electricity was shut off last week.

A fan that was supposed to whisk the fumes from the generator out of the home wasn’t plugged in, according to authorities. And two of the home’s external crawl space vents were covered with insulation, AP reported.

Veteran Surgeon Dies Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Hunting Club

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Posted on 13th January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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A elderly surgeon died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in an Arkansas hunting club last weekend.

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20110112/NEWS01/101120337

Dr. Tom Bell of Harrison, Ark., and William Hicks of Yellville, Ark., were found unconscious Saturday morning in a duck club. Bell, 75, died and Hicks was brought to a Little Rock hospital, where he was in serious condition, according to the Baxter Bulletin.

The hunting club’s heating system had a broken exhaust pipe, which sent carbon monoxide fumes throughout the building, according to investigators.

Vermont Students Striken By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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Posted on 7th January 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Eleven students and a staff member at a Vermont school were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603080.html

The poisoning took place at a school in Putney, Vt., which was evacuated. The sick students were taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, with some already released and the rest expected to be released.

According to AP, 25 children were hospitalized in Waterbury, Conn., earlier this week aftter a carbon monoxide leak. And at a New Hampshire prep school 11 students were hospitalized after breathing nitrogen dioxide at a hockey rink.

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