Here’s a frightening and tragic lesson for parents: Your own vehicle, especially if it’s an older model, can expose yout young children to carbon monoxide poisoning. That’s what happened last Friday in Kentucky. A 15-month-old died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and her two siblings became sick, while on a trip in their family’s minivan, according to the […]
Here’s a scene that will be played out again and again during the winter when poor people’s electricity is turned off. Four family members were found dead in their Oakhurst, Calif., home Sunday, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17122304?nclick_check=1 The victims were Diana Montoya, 60; Bruce John Frederick Hargett, 35; Alexis Montoya, 10; and Jayden Montoya, […]
A elderly surgeon died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in an Arkansas hunting club last weekend. http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20110112/NEWS01/101120337 Dr. Tom Bell of Harrison, Ark., and William Hicks of Yellville, Ark., were found unconscious Saturday morning in a duck club. Bell, 75, died and Hicks was brought to a Little Rock hospital, where he was in serious condition, according […]
Eleven students and a staff member at a Vermont school were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday, according to the Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603080.html The poisoning took place at a school in Putney, Vt., which was evacuated. The sick students were taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, with some already released and the rest expected to be released. According to AP, 25 […]
Five teenagers were found dead in a Hialeah, Fla., motel, the apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to several press reports. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/27/1990337/five-men-found-dead-inside-hialeah.html# One of the youths, Juchen Martial, had wanted to go to the motel, the Hotel Presidente, Sunday to celebrate his 19th birthday. But the car the group had driven, a Kia Optima, had been […]
A South Chicago man was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at his home Saturday night, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2815002-418/carbon-monoxide-according-charles-died.html The victim, 45-year-old Leroy Charles, was found by a member of his family at roughly 8 p.m. on South Merrill Avenue. The city fire department was called in to conduct a carbon monoxide test […]
There was a senseless double tragedy in Chicago this week, as two people were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning on separate days in the same home in the West Englewood neighborhood, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The second death was caused because a faulty boiler wasn’t repaired after the first death. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2923890,CST-NWS-monoxide1126.article# Both Edward Henderson, 52, and […]
A nursing home in suburban Rochester, N.Y., had to be evacuated due to high levels of carbon monoxide, which made three residents ill early Thanksgiving Day, according to the Associated Press. http://online.wsj.com/article/AP045c152fbb704503bbd9396601fc7234.html# Firefighters responded to the Latta Road Nursing home in Greece, N.Y., right before dawn Thanksgiving. They found potentially deadly carbon monoxide in one […]
The death of a woman and her daughter, apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, are under investigation in Colorado, according to the Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16653435 The bodies of the woman, Patrice Clark, and the 9-year-old, Nicole, were found in the garage of the woman’s home on Lafayette, Colo. The Denver Post story quoted the employer of the […]
New Wisconsin Carbon Monoxide Law Is Too Late To Save Elderly Man
If Wisconsin’s law mandating carbon monoxide detectors had taken effect Jan. 1, instead of Feb, 1, maybe an 88-year-old man and his dog would be alive today. This week Stanley Neckuty of Auburn, Wis., was found in his home Monday by one of his family members. When police also found the body of Neckuty’s dog, […]