How many times has this tragedy played out this winter, one of the worse the country has seen in many years? Four people, a mother and her three children, died of carbon monoxide poisoning last week in Toledo, Ohio. http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=8029564&pt=print They were living in a rented house with no heat or electricity, and were using a gas-powered […]
Carbon monoxide poisoning took the lives of two cousins, one who had been celebrating his birthday, and two pit bulls in South Milwaukee this weekend, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/117962754.html Authorities ruled the deaths of Juan Vasquez, who turned 29 on Saturday, and his cousin Noe Ramirez-Abriz, 28, as accidental. Their cousin had lent them […]
A Minnesota man was discovered dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in his cabin in western Wisconsin last week, according to press reports. http://www.startribune.com/local/117647318.html Gene Prekker, 60, of St. Paul, Minn., was found in his cabin in Cameron, Wis., by his sister last Tuesday morning. Police found a pipe with a small explosive in it […]
Four family members, one found semi-conscious, were hospitalized in Neenah, Wis., Tuesday for carbon monoxide poisoning. One of the family’s cats was killed by the lethal gas. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110308/APC0101/110308032/4-hospitalized-1-cat-dead-after-carbon-monoxide-poisoning?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|APC-News The victims were exposed to the potentially lethal carbon monoxide gas in their home in the 200 block of Grant Street. The four, whose identities weren’t immediately known, were […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has reviewed the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon monoxide, and is proposing to retain them. At least one expert doesn’t think keeping the old rules in place is a good idea, and wants tougher standards. If you agree with him, as I do, you have until […]
With Americans from Dallas to Milwaukee to Boston enduring record snowfalls, here’s a word to the wise: Clear out all the snow from your car tailpipe and from the vents of your home furnaces. http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110203-carbon-monoxide,0,1929248.story There was recently a case in New York City where a mother left her two daughters in her car, which was running, while […]
Roughly three dozen people became sick at a banquet hall in Upstate New York from carbon monoxide poisoning this weekend. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1759157/WBFO.News/Carbon.monoxide.at.banquet.hall.sickens.three.dozen.people The incident took place at the Masonic Community Center on Union Road in Cheektowaga, N.Y., during a fundraising dinner that more than 150 people attended Saturday night. The hall’s carbon monoxide detector went off, […]
A Madison, Wis., woman was hospitalized and treated for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. http://www.channel3000.com/news/26731016/detail.html# Firefighters and paramedics were called to an East Side Madison duplex, address 1027 Jana Lane, at roughly 11 a.m. A neighbor, an Madison Gas & Electric worker, had detected high carbon monoxide levels. A carbon monoxide detector in one unit went off, but […]
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 […]
Two Tenants Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In New Jersey As Alarms Sit In The Basement
Two recent deaths in a Jersey City, N.J., apartment building were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, according to The Jersey Journal. http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1302157523245801.xml&coll=3 This story has several particularly tragic twists. If authorities had figured out the cause of the first death more quickly, perhaps they could have prevented the second one. And the carbon monoxide alarms that could […]