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Some of the latest CO stories in the news...
Tragic unusual week spure refocus on CO risks...
Salt Lake Tribune
The death of 7 year old Megan Evans was the first since 2003 at the lake, where officials who saw scores of Carbon MOnoxide poisinings in the 1990's were...
Carbon Monoxide Kills many in UK...
BBC News
The BBC reports that
Carbon monoxide poisoning has killed 50 people in the UK since the beginning of 2006, according to industry figures. The gas installers' registration body ...
Landlord fined for dangerous boiler...
Wimbledon Guardian
A HSE and British Gas investigation discovered that the central heating boiler in Flat 4 was producing high levels of carbon monoxide, which could enter the ...
Wiltshire Fire Service announce Fire/CO campaign for canal boats...
Wiltshire Times & Chippenham News
FIREFIGHTERS in Trowbridge are getting on their bikes to help spread the message about fire safety on boats. This summer Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service is targeting boat users on the canals to highlight the risks of fire and carbon monoxide poisoning...
Florida passes CO alarm law...
CBS4 News
The death of a guest at a Key West hotel blamed on carbon monoxide in his room has helped spur a new state law requiring many buildings to install carbon monoxide detectors. The bill sponsored by Hialeah representative Eddy Gonzalez passed Friday by the House and was sent to...
CO alarm saves Oxford student...
The Oxford Student
A potentially deadly carbon-monoxide leak has been discovered in a student house on Cowley Road. The group of six Somerville students discovered the leak when they switched the cooker on and immediately triggered a gas detector. One of the residents of the house told...
Trading Standards Concern about Unreliable Alarm...
Kent Trading Standards
Kent County Council's trading standards is warning consumers about the dangers of using a plug-in carbon monoside alarm which cannot be relied on to detect the so called silent killer gas. The plug in carbon monoxide alarm branded ProTeam and has been available... Updated Press Release
Canal boat couple die of CO poisoning...
Shropshire Star
A MIDLAND couple found dead on their canal boat died from carbon monoxide poisoning, police said today. The bodies of Michael Tudor, 46, and Karen Lesley Van-Rooyen, 42, were found on the vessel on Shropshire Union Canal at Norbury, near Stafford, last Wednesday...
Gateshead primary school CO escape...
BBC News
Gas boilers at a primary school are being examined after children fell ill from carbon monoxide poisoning. Emergency crews took 25 pupils and a teacher from Crookhill Primary School in Ryton, near Gateshead, to hospital...
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