Nine People Get Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Hackensack, N.J., Home

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Posted on 29th November 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Sometimes it’s a good thing when relatives stop over, uninvited. Here’s a case in point.

Three Hackensack, N.J., residents escaped death from carbon monoxide poisoning Monday when visiting relatives stopped by their house to pay a call on them, according to The Record.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/9_treated_for_carbon_monoxide_poisoning_in_Hackensack.html

A married couple and their 14-year-old son — after being made ill from the lethal fumes coming from a furnace — were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in serious conditon, The Record reported.

They were found unconscious at their home at roughly noon by relatives who were in Hackensack to attend a wedding, according to the newspaper.

The carbon monoxide levels were so high that the four relatives who discovered the family, as well as the two police offcers who responded to the call, also had to be transported to the hospital, The Record reported. Those six had developed some of the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, including nausea and headaches.

The married couple that was found by their relatives were transferred to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, so they could be treated in a hyperbaric chamber. Their son was still at Hackensack University Medical Center.

The police officers and relatives who found the unconscious trio were all treated and released. Those relativies, two adults and two children, had only been in the house for less than an hour, and the police for a half hour, when they got sick.

The visiting relatives had been staying in a local hotel while they attended a wedding last weekend, according to The Record.

Authorities said that they detected a carbon monoxide level of 1,000 parts per million at one point in the home, the newspaper reported.

The deadly fumes apparently came from a damaged flue, which is supposed to funnel exhaust out of the house. But authorities said that flue had rotted and wasn’t properly venting the exhaust.  

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Chicago Thanksgiving Party Ends Up With 20 Ill From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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Posted on 26th November 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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When are people going to learn this lesson: Don’t use a grill inside your home.

On Thanksgiving night 20 people at a party in Chicago got carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Chicago Tribune.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-24/news/chi-20-people-suffer-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-20111124_1_carbon-monoxide-poisoning-thanksgiving-party-area-hospitals

And how did they get poisoned by that potentially lethal gas?

Someone was using a grill inside a home on West Roscoe Street in the Kilbourn Park neighborhood where the incident took place. Were they trying to grill the bird like a hamburger?

Seven people were sent to West Suburban Medical Center and Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, and another 13 were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at the scene, according to the Tribune.

The incident happened before 11 p.m.

 

 

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New Jersey Couple Dies Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Trying To Keep Warm After Freak Fall Snowstorm

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Posted on 6th November 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Unfortunately, it’s no surprise that last weekend’s freak snowstorm in the Northeast, which knocked out power for days in New Jersey and Connecticut, would end up killing people. Or perhaps rather, that carbon monoxide would wind up killing people. And so it happened.

An elderly couple, Robert Stephens, 84, and his wife Susanna, 79, were discovered dead in their home in Holland Township, N.J. They had been without electricity for almost a week, and were found by a Jersey Central Power & Light  contractor, according to The Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203804204577018292206228950.html

Authorities believe that the married couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas generator they had running in their garage to heat their home.

Middle Atlantic officials agree that the weekend snowstorm did much more damage than Hurricane Irene back at the end of August. The snowstorm packed a real whammy, downing trees and branches whose leaves — not fallen yet – couldn’t bear the weight of the heavy wet snow.

That lead to the downing of power lines, depriving residents of heat during frosty fall weather. People scrambled to find other ways to heat their homes, be it with fire pits or gas generators, or even firing up charcoal grills and propane burners inside their homes, according to The Journal.

But those alternatives to electrically produced heat all pose the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Journal reported that Connecticut officials had gotten more than 200 calls about carbon monoxide poisoning since the Oct. 30 snowstorm.

In the case of the Garden State, ”11 callers to New Jersey’s poison control center were later hospitalized for carbon monoxide exposure,” according to The Journal.  

Unfortunately, the Stephens never made such a call.  

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