Here’s a life-saving tip from firefighters in Boynton Beach, Fla.: If your carbon monoxide detector goes off, don’t try to change its batteries. Get the hell out of your house and call 911. Margaret Diana, 78, was discovered by her next-door neighbors two weeks ago in her Boynton Beach home, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning, […]
A man in Dale, N.Y., was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday, while his wife remained in the hospital after being overcome by the lethal gas, which apparently came from a furnace, according to The Daily News. http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_7c3e7c88-5f25-11e2-aed3-001a4bcf887a.html The couple, Paul and Annette Kaczmarek, was found in their home around 6 a.m. when a relative […]
Two women in Queens, N.Y., were hospitalized Monday for carbon monoxide poisoning following a suspected boiler leak, according to WABC-TV. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8944932 The two female victims, one in her 20s and one in her 50s, were overcome by the potentially lethal fumes at a house in Ozone Park shortly before 8 a.m., WABC reported. The victims […]
On Christmas Day a couple and an 11-year-old boy died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in Flint, Mich., according to the Associated Press. http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/3-die-of-apparent-carbon-monoxide-poison/e13f74e41b874c809b1d994b7f8a38d5 LeTroy Edwards, 43, Selena Carranza, 37, and her son Jayson Cobbin, 11, were the victims of the accidental poisoning, AP reported. Edwards and Carranza were dead at the scene, while the […]
A New Jersey state senator last week introduced legislation that would require schools in the Garden State to install carbon monoxide detectors, something only required in Connecticut and Maryland now. Sen. Shirley K. Turner, author of a 1999 New Jersey law requiring homes to have carbon monoxide detectors installed, is the sponsor of the new […]
An East Texas couple found dead in their home Tuesday were apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/18/4494525/east-texas-couple-found-dead-carbon.html The victims, Cynthia Pettigrew, 50, and Johnathan Lydia, who was about to celebrate his 49th birthday, had a gasoline-powered generator running inside their house in Tyler, Texas, according to authorities. Tyler […]
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about this kind of thing, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Once again, a vigilant pooch has saved its owner from carbon monoxide poisoning, avoiding tragedy. In the most recent case, the hero was a 4-year-old chihuahua in West Jordan, Utah, according to the Deseret News. […]
One can’t help but marvel at the irony: 30 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Saturday at a place in Boston named the Exhale Spa. The ill, who displayed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, were treated at the scene at the spa in the Back Bay section of Boston, according to WHDH.com. http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12009270643270/30-treated-after-carbon-monoxide-leak-at-boston-spa/ Firefighters responded to […]
Washington state has a new law mandating the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in homes that goes into effect Jan. 1, according to the Associated Press and other media reports. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-05/wash-dot-carbon-monoxide-alarm-condition-added-jan-dot-1 The genesis of the new, broader law is pretty interesting. The Legislature amended the state building code when there was a bad windstorm in […]
Arkansas Hotel Guests Hospitalized For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
A carbon monoxide leak from a pool heater resulted in five Hampton Inn guests in Arkansas being hospitalized Monday night, and the entire hotel being evacuated, according to the Siloam Springs Daily Leader. http://hl.nwaonline.com/news/2013/jan/22/5-hospitalized-signs-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/?print The incident happened at the inn on U.S. 421 in Siloam Springs, with the first report of carbon monoxide poisoning coming […]