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Running a car or generator in an attached garage can cause fatal CO poisoning in the home. If the cab of a truck is defectively designed, sleeping in the cab while the engine is running can pose a danger. So can using a gas-powered generator or burning wood or charcoal in the basement, crawlspace or even next to a living area if a window or door is open, as lethal fumes could seep into your home.

The best protection against carbon monoxide poisoning in the home is to have a CO detector installed near your bedrooms. Be sure also to have your furnace serviced regularly. To learn more, visit our safety tips page.


 


Press Articles

2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004
The following are summaries of 2005-2006 press articles involving the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and lawsuits related to deaths and injuries due to carbon monoxide poisoning. To contact a Lieff Cabraser personal injury attorney, click here.
  
July 14, 2006
Associated Press, "Carbon Monoxide Kills One in Virginia Dorm"
          Carbon monoxide leaked into a college dormitory early Friday, killing a man and sickening dozens of teens and adults attending summer programs at Roanoke College, the school said.
          College spokeswoman Teresa Gereaux said more than 80 people had been taken to two Roanoke Valley hospitals complaining of headaches, nausea, dizziness and shakiness. She said an elderly man had died.
          A few of the people collapsed and were taken by ambulance to hospitals. Others had milder symptoms and were transported by college van.
          Nearly 140 adults and teens from across Virginia were staying in the Salem dorm as part of Upward Bound, a program geared toward helping teens pursue higher education, and Power in the Spirit, a Lutheran group, Gereaux said.
          Members of the groups called campus police from the dorm's emergency phone shortly after dawn, and the police notified the Salem Fire Department. Experts were still trying to locate the source of the carbon monoxide.
  
April 18, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle, "Carbon monoxide investigated in 4 deaths at motel"
          Three East Bay residents were among four people killed in a rural Nevada motel room, and investigators are trying to determine Monday whether they had been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a heater. A maintenance man discovered the victims Sunday at the Casino West Motel in Yerington, about 50 miles southeast of Reno, said Scott Huntley of the Mason Valley Fire Protection District.
          "Carbon monoxide is being strongly investigated," Huntley said. "We've gotten some elevated readings from inside the room." Huntley said the bodies showed no signs of violence or foul play.
          Huntley said investigators were testing the room heater and also a heater for the motel swimming pool, which was adjacent to the room. Autopsies were being conducted Monday. "We're still trying to re-enact the situation," Huntley said. "There's no sign of foul play, but we haven't ruled anything out."
  
July 1, 2005
Newsday, Detection: It's the law -- Getting guidance; New York City residences now must be protected against carbon monoxide
     Carbon monoxide had killed before, but two deaths in Manhattan last year helped turn a back-burner proposal into a city law. On Feb. 15, 2004, Joaquin Polanco, 60, and his roommate Harvey Needleman, 67, who shared an apartment in that building, died from carbon monoxide poisoning that the New York Fire Department attributed to a leak in faulty heating equipment.
          The tragedy, combined with improved technology, prodded city government to mandate the carbon monoxide detectors, effective last November, with the support of Miller and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It has put detectors in more residences by making their installation a mandatory safeguard by homeowners, landlords or management companies.
          Carbon monoxide is a deadly colorless, odorless gas, a product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels - oil, natural gas, gasoline and propane - and wood.
          Chris Rovenstine, marketing vice president for Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc., one manufacturer, estimated the retail cost of detectors at about $25 to $50, depending on their features. Landlords responsible for putting them in tenants' apartments can charge $25 for each one under the city mandate.
          The city law has not been able to stop carbon monoxide from claiming lives. A hearing-impaired Queens couple -- Blair Mazin, 50, and his wife, Anita, 49 -- were found dead in what the city medical examiner's office determined to be an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in their Douglaston condo on March 30. Although a police spokesman last week said that the most readily available department reports do not discuss a detector, police speculation that the couple did not hear a detector's alarm was reported at the time of their death.
 
April 14, 2005
The Wakefield Observer (Massachusetts), Lawmakers unveil carbon monoxide legislation
          In response to the death of 7-year-old Massachusetts resident Nicole Garofalo, lawmaker's recently unveiled legislation that will require every resident to have a carbon monoxide detector in their home.
          The legislation, which is being called Nicole's Law, will mandate that before the sale or transfer of a home, it must have a working carbon monoxide detector. It also states that a building with three or more residential units must have working carbon monoxide detectors within 180 days of the bill being signed into law. Both would be subject to inspection.

Contact A Personal Injury Attorney
Persons who have suffered brain damage, or the families of loved ones who have died from exposure to carbon monoxide due to a defective product or the negligence of another are welcome to contact Lieff Cabraser.
Please note that we wish to and can only help those already diagnosed with major carbon monoxide-related injuries (or the families of victims killed by carbon monoxide). Those without major CO2 related injuries may wish to visit the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Medline Plus section on carbon monoxide, or the Health and Safety Executive pages on domestic gas health and safety.
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"Carbon monoxide kills one, injures several in SF apartment building"
January 13, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle
  
A carbon monoxide leak in a San Francisco apartment building killed a 77-year-old man and injured eight other people Monday night, even though an alarm meant to detect the dangerous gas had been beeping since Sunday. More...

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