Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sends 11 To The Hospital In New London, Wis.

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Posted on 31st October 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Here’s why you need carbon monoxide detectors in your dwelling.

Nearly a dozen people in New London, Wis., were hospitalized and released Sunday for carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak of the deadly gas in their apartment building, according to The Post-Crescent of Appleton. 

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New London firefighters evacuated the 16-unit apartment building at 505 Oakridge Lane, with at least 11 residents winding up in the hospital, according to The Post-Crescent. An ambulance arrived on on the scene around 6 a.m. in response to a call of four people feeling sick. The four all lived in the same apartment unit.

One teen-aged girl was found on her bed unconscious, but she was revived, the local newspaper reported.

Six people were transported to New London Family Medical Center; three to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton; and two to Riverside Medical Center, according to The Post-Crescent. But two of the residents first sent to New London had to be transferred to St. Elizabeth so they get treatment in a hyperbaric chamber.

A hot water heater in the apartment building’s basement had a broken exhaust pipe, and fire officials believe that was the source of the carbon monoxide leak.

One elderly resident of the apartment building told The Post-Crescent that it doesn’t have carbon monoxide detectors. 

The city fire inspector and building inspector will be paying a visit to the building’s landlord Monday. Let’s hope that they recommend CO detectors.   

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Pennsylvania Family Sickened From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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Posted on 30th October 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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A Pennsylvania family got carbon monoxide poisoning last Thursday, the fifth such case in Allegheny County since the start of what local authorities call the heating season, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_764230.html?_s_icmp=NetworkHeadlines#

On Thursday emergency personnel were called to a two-story duplex in Wilkinsburg, Pa., when there was a report that someone was suffering from abdominal pain. The EMTs found five children and two adults who were suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, and the family was hospitalized.

Authorities investigating the incident discovered that “someone had improperly vented the furnace exhaust through a clothes dryer duct,” which raised the CO level in the duplex’s basement to 1,000 parts per million, a fatal level, the Tribune-Review reported.

In Allegheny County, the health department designates the heating season as Oct. 1 through May 31. Last year there were 33 incidents of accidental carbon monoxide during that period, according to the newspaper.

And from October 2009 to May 2010, there were three deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning among the 31 incidents reported, according to the Tribune-Review.   

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ADT Security Recalls 20,000 Carbon Monoxide Detectors

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Posted on 23rd October 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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ADT Security Services Inc. has voluntarily recalled roughly 20,000 carbon monoxide detectors, according to an Oct. 20 press release from the  U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12701.html

The recalled carbon monoxide detectors fail to properly indicate the end of  their useful life, prompting the recall, which ADT voluntarily conducted in cooperation with the CPSC.

The CPSC warned consumers to stop using the detectors immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

The product being recalled by Boca Raton, Fla.-based ADT  is the CO 1224T Carbon Monoxide detector. It was manufactured by Sensor System of St. Charles, Ill.

The CO detectors pose a hazard because when they reach the end of their useful life, they should send a signal to make a sound in the home alarm panel alerting consumers it is time to replace them. And a signal is also supposed to be sent to ADT’s alarm monitoring center.

Some of the detectors were not wired properly to the ADT alarm system, resulting in the sound not going off in the home alarm panel and no signal to the ADT alarm monitoring center at the end of its useful life. Not replacing a CO detector at the end its useful life poses a CO poisoning hazard to consumers.

There have not been any incidents or injuries reported due to the faulty detectors.

The recall involves hard-wired carbon monoxide detectors with model CO 1224T installed by ADT. The model number is behind the front cover. They were installed by ADT between October 2008 and December 2010 as part of home security systems.

Consumers should contact ADT immediately for a free inspection of the recalled detectors and, if necessary, a free repair, according to the CPSC. Consumers should not attempt to disable the recalled detectors, the CPSC warned. ADT has contacted all customers.

For additional information, contact ADT toll-free at (800) 238-2727 between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit the company’s website. 

 

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