{"id":1121,"date":"2009-01-13T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2009-01-13T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:34:19","slug":"carbon-monoxide-claims-five-lives-and-sickens-dozens-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/local-news\/carbon-monoxide-claims-five-lives-and-sickens-dozens-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon monoxide claims five lives and sickens dozens this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carbon monoxide poisoning has claimed five lives in Colorado this winter. The time is now to protect yourself and your family by installing CO detectors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In recent weeks the dangers of carbon monoxide<\/a> poisoning have been hitting very close to home here in Colorado.\u00a0 On November 28th, a family of four in Aspen was killed by the invisible, odorless gas<\/a> due to a leak in a gas-fired broiler.\u00a0 Last week on January 5th a University of Denver student was killed<\/a> in a similar case, possibly from a faulty flue.\u00a0 This past Saturday\u00a0more than 30\u00a0people in a Greeley hockey rink were treated for CO poisoning<\/a> when exhaust gases from the ice grooming equipment is believed to have caused dangerous levels of the gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Colorado state legislature yesterday took up a bill that would mandate detectors in all new homes and in apartment buildings<\/a>.\u00a0 While we don’t necessarily believe legislation is the cure, education certainly would go a long ways toward making folks aware of the danger.<\/p>\n

The cost of carbon monoxide detectors has dropped appreciably in recent years as they become more popular and now is the time to protect yourself and your home.\u00a0 Every home should have at least one and indeed, experts recommend you have one on every level of the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An expanded version of this article is available on Examiner.com<\/a>\u00a0with more safety tips on how you can protect you and your family from carbon monoxide. <\/strong><\/td>\n\"Visit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The incident in Aspen got my attention and I bought a number of them for my house and highly encourage everyone to do the same.\u00a0 They can be found at most home improvement stores, big box stores or online at places like Amazon.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Installation is very simple with some just needing to be plugged into a wall outlet and others being battery operated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning have been hitting very close to home here in Colorado.\u00a0 On November 28th, a family of four in Aspen was killed by the invisible, odorless gas due to a leak in a gas-fired broiler.\u00a0 Last week on January 5th a University of Denver student was killed … Continue reading Carbon monoxide claims five lives and sickens dozens this winter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}