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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning


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Download the USFA's Emergency Incident Rehabilitation (PDF) Carbon Monoxide poisoning sickens N.Y. family Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After an Emergency
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Online Training Resources
FETN Training Video: "Carbon Monoxide: The Odorless Killer"
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FirefighterCloseCalls.com's Rehabilitation Training Slideshow (PPT)

Date last updated: Monday, October 2, 10:40 PST


10/02/2006

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Texas city fire experts remind about carbon monoxide dangers


By KCBD.com (Texas)
 
Lubbock Fire Marshal Garett Nelson says firing up a propane cooker indoors is like smothering the oxygen right out of the room.   "Never do it in an enclosed space," said Nelson.

Fifteen people were celebrating a birthday inside a storage unit.  They were frying fish using propane and ended up inhaling too much carbon monoxide.

"Anything that's producing an open flame is also producing carbon monoxide," said Nelson

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