Posted on 4th April 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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A 41-year-old Florida woman, who apparently was using a generator for heat because she couldn’t pay her electric bill, died from carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. http://www.wesh.com/news/23033192/detail.html
When paramedics responded to the home on Kingswood Drive in Orange County, it had high levels of carbon dioxide. The victim had been overcome by the noxious fumes, and was dead after she was taken out of the house.
The woman’s daughter, who called for help, was hospitalized.
The victim’s name wasn’t released, but neighbors said she had only moved into her home a few weeks ago, and that she had just purchased the generator.
Posted on 24th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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It is another generator run indoors case.
Three people died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning after being found unconscious on a houseboat in Huntington Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20100324/NEWS05/3240358/-1/newsfront/Carbon-monoxide-suspected-in-3-deaths-on-Long-Island-houseboat
The three unidentified victims – two men and a woman — were found on the houseboat at 9 pm. Tuesday, according to Suffolk County police. They had gotten a 911 call to come to the houseboat.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/24/2010-03-24_3_found_dead_on_houseboat.html
They were transported to Huntington Hospital, and were pronounced dead there.
Autopsies will be done to confirm the cause of death. There were no signs of foul play, according to police. A police detective told the newspaper Newsday that the three people were believed to have been overcome by fatal carbon monoxide fumes. There was a gasoline-powered generator on the boat.
Two police officer who had responded to the scene had to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.
Over and over we say it here, but sadly it doesn’t get heard elsewhere: engines cannot be run indoors, even if the power is out. For more on the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning go to
http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com
Posted on 19th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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Four people nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday in Nebraska after a car was left running in a home’s attached garage. http://www.omaha.com/article/20100316/NEWS01/100319699
Authorities were investigating the near-fatal incident that took place on Mulberry Court in La Vista, Neb. Police called to the scene found Terah Yager, 31, who was barely conscious and then actually collapsed.
Police rescued Yager, 27-year-old Nicole Meyer and two girls, both 12, from the home. In the house police encountered the overpowering smell of natural or petroleum-based gas, as well as smoke.
Meyer had left a car running in the garage on Saturday at 11 p.m., according to police. She and the girls were treated and released from Nebraska Medical Center, while Yager received treatment at the house.
Sunday morning the carbon monoxide level in the house was more than 500,000 parts per million, and constant exposure to Co levels above 150 to 200 parts per million can be deadly. Don’t run engines indoors. Any time someone is found unconscious with carbon monoxide poisoning, it is important that they continue to follow with a doctor in the days after the exposure, even if they have been discharged from the hospital. Carbon monoxide poisoning can get worse in the period of 2 to 40 days after the exposure. This is called delayed neurological sequalae or DNS. See http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/carbon_monoxide_poisoning/carbon_monoxide_delayed_onset.html For more on carbon monoxide poisoning and prevention, go to http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com
Posted on 18th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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A Giants Food Store in Forks Township, Pa., had to be evacuated Monday as at least a half dozen people got sick from carbon monoxide poisoning. http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/index.ssf/2010/03/carbon_monoxide_poisoning_sick.html
The store was cleared at 9:30 p.m. when six to eight people in an area that was undergoing a renovation began feeling nauseous and getting headaches. One of those people collapsed.
Authorities blamed a propane tile cutter, which was in the construction area, with releasing the potentially fatal gas. The part of the store that was being renovated had been separated from the rest of the building with plastic tarp, and that was the area that had dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, authorities said.
Officials compared running a tile cutter inside like that as akin to leaving a car running in a garage.
In total 35 people were evacuated from the store, which is on Town Center Boulevard. They were all tested for carbon monoxide poisoning as a precaution.
As we keep saying, over and over, internal combustion engines cannot be run indoors. For more on carbon monoxide poisoning and prevention, go to http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com
Posted on 16th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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Sometimes, I just wished more people could read our warnings about the risk of carbon monoxide exposure. What I have come to learn about carbon monoxide and the news, if there is a big storm that knocks out power, someone will die because of the way they compensate for the absence of electricity.
After torrential rain and winds knocked out electricity in many parts of New Jersey this weekend, a Carteret, N.J. man was killed by carbon monoxide fumes from a generator he was using because he was without power. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/carteret_man_is_found_dead_in.html
The 49-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released, was discovered dead Saturday sitting on a couch in the basement of a Pine Street home. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Residents at that address had been using a portable generator because they had lost power due to the Northeaster storm. But one of the residents called police shortly after noon Saturday to report that some of his family members were sick and that a family friend was unconscious in the basement.
When firefighters and police arrived at the home, a married couple with two children were outside the home. They were taken to Raritan Bay Medical Center for treatment.
In the basement, the responders smelled the odor of gasoline and found the generator. It had been turned off. All the windows in the basement were closed.
Posted on 16th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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It’s not terribly often that one reads about building evacuations in Manhattan due to high levels of carbon monoxide, but that’s what happened this past Sunday.
Thirty five people were forced out of eight Upper West Side buildings after firefighters were called to West 76th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park, which is a lovely area with trees, brownstones and townhouses, the New York Post reported Monday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/flee_gas_on_side_nXQgQ2esxeRVWWa9iwi8dL
The fire department arrived at the scene at 3:30 p.m., and residents were allowed to return to their homes at 8 p.m.
Authorities were still trying to pinpoint the source of the dangerous carbon monoxide.
Posted on 13th March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle Wednesday signed a bill that mandates that state residents put carbon monoxide detectors in their residences. http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/87282252.html
Under the new law, carbon monoxide detectors will have to be installed on all floors of single-family homes and two-unit residences. These detectors are already required in other kinds of housing.
New homes will also have to have carbon monoxide detectors.
However, the law doesn’t have any teeth to it. There is no fine for those who don’t comply with the law. Officials said that the legislation is mean to educate and encourage compliance.
Posted on 1st March 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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A carbon monoxide detector saved a Lexington, Ky., family from being poisoned by the deadly gas.
http://www.wtvq.com/news/2450-carbon-monoxide-detector-alerts-familyThe family, which lives on Lakeview Drive, were alerted to the gas at 2 a.m. Monday morning.
Local firefighters responded to the scene, and the family did say it was feeling sick.
Authorities found high levels of carbon monoxide, and the family had to spend the night in a hotel.
A venting foul-up is suspected of causing the potentially deadly CO build-up.
For more information on carbon monoxide exposure, see
http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com
Posted on 4th February 2010 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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An estimated 60 and 70 people were evacuated Tuesday night from a church in Milwaukee when high carbon monoxide levels were found at the building, according to a story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/83417097.htmlFire fighters were responding to a medical emergency at the Word of God Worship Center at 3320 W. Vliet St. when a paramedic’s carbon monoxide detector registered elevated carbon monoxide levels, the paper reported.
The man who needed medical attention was taken to a hospital. l
No information was available on the patient, who was taken to a local hospital, Poliak said.
The people who were evacuated didn’t have any signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. The incident was being probed by authorities.
For a better understanding the full consequences of carbon monoxide exposure go to http://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com
Posted on 10th March 2009 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized
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Yesterday, as I browsed the internet for headlines, I tuned into CNN for some background noise and by the end of the day my mood was as dark as the news. I have made it a habit to not tune into news channels for that very reason. Don’t take me wrong. My job entails absorbing a huge quantity of news. But for me, personally, the sort of news I thrive on is more along the lines of environmental issues.
It occurred to me, after cringing through stories of a troubled economy, that perhaps a lifetime of environmentalism and other lost or unpopular causes has given me a different perspective on the state of the world. I can sum up that difference in two words: unshakeable optimism.
I see a world which has become more self-aware and activists of all types joining together to create big changes. Taken individually, these actions can seem insignificant. Viewed as a whole, however, they become a force to be reckoned with.
That is why a little story from News Channel 19 in Chattanooga, Tennessee caught my eye. In a vow to reduce carbon monoxide by 7% from 1990 levels, volunteers are planting trees. Since last year they have planted a variety of trees in downtown neighborhoods, 620 of them in fact. The trees will not only absorb carbon monoxide, they will reduce the need for air conditioning by providing shade for the heat-absorbing concrete.
So back to the headlines. Stimulus spending, joblessness and energy problems. What better way to tackle all three head on than by planting trees? How many miles of highway do we have in this country just waiting for armies of workers to plant air-cleaning trees? Barren city streets scorching in the summer sun? Farmers’ fields blowing away from the lack of wind barriers? Vacant city lots devoid of life? Perhaps the greening of America should be more than a concept, maybe it should be a reality.
I admit, I am very partial to trees. I spend a lot of time out walking under them. They are a reminder of the solidity and continuity of life, the enormous potential for growth, and hope. Perhaps America needs a little of that right now.
Many of the trees I walk thru, many of the trees in the county in which I live, were planted there as part of the WPA work program during the depression. According to the old timers our beautiful rural landscape once looked like central Illinois, flat and treeless. Now it is a haven for much of Wisconsin, because of all of the beautiful trees.
thelegaltimes.net staff writer
