Lansing apartment building evacuated for dangerous CO levels
‘It could have all been prevented’: Siblings promote carbon monoxide detectors after death of parents, brother
Alpine Township, MI –
“On Friday, December 22, Bob, Barb, and Tim Modzeleski were found dead in their Alpine Township home, following a carbon monoxide leak that sprung from a boiler.
They were 86, 81, and 61, respectively.”
Siblings promote carbon monoxide detectors after death of parents, brother (fox17online.com)
West Michigan man killed by generator fumes remembered as compassionate, quirky
Davison Township Man Dies of Suspected Carbon Monoxide Leak
Michigan –
“Davison Township Police Chief Jay Rendon said emergency crews found an 82-year-old man dead inside the house when they arrived. Firefighters pulled an 83-year-old woman outside.
An ambulance rushed the woman to Hurley Medical Center in critical condition. She later was airlifted to ProMedica Toledo Hospital in Ohio, where she remained in critical condition.”
Suspected carbon monoxide leak claims life in Davison Township | Local | abc12.com
Brighton family barely survives carbon monoxide poisoning, warns others to buy detectors
Ann Arbor Hotel Cited in Carbon Monoxide Death of Maintenance Worker
Rolling Stone: Fans Keep Dying at This Country Music Festival. Their Families Want Answers
“At the 2021 Faster Horses festival, five country fans went to sleep in their trailer after a day of concerts — only two woke up. Inside one of many tragedies at country music’s deadly fest…”
Fans Keep Dying at Faster Horses Festival and Families Want Answers – Rolling Stone
‘My story’: Local firefighter cautions homeowners on use of generators in power outages
Canton police investigating 60-year-old man’s death at the business he owned
Canton, MI –
“…after clearing the scene, firefighters were called back on a report of (another) employee not feeling well. That’s when they detected a dangerous gas…four firefighters and three police officers were also sent to the hospital for evaluation…the deadly gas is odorless, and the only way to prevent such incidents is to install detectors at home and business.”
Canton police investigating 60-year-old man’s death at the business he owned (wxyz.com)
Maintenance worker found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ann Arbor hotel
Ann Arbor, MI –
“Crews entered the hotel and found a maintenance worker inside the boiler room deceased… Testing showed the boiler room contained carbon monoxide levels in excess of 500 parts per million…”
Maintenance worker found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ann Arbor hotel – mlive.com
“Charles Suire, 49, of Ann Arbor, was found dead Monday, November 28, in the boiler room of the Victory Inn, 3750 Washtenaw Ave., according to the Ann Arbor Police Department.
Police were contacted by Ann Arbor Public Schools around 12:30 p.m. Monday to conduct a health and welfare check after a 14-year-old student who was staying at the hotel with his mother and father failed to show up for school. said the police.
Officers came and met with the teenager, who said he did not go to school because he was worried about his father Suire, who left her room around 3pm the previous day and had not returned, police said…Investigators reviewing the hotel’s surveillance video saw Suire enter the boiler room alone around 3pm and did not come out…”
“It was the last thing anyone expected for Suire, who had worked there for more than seven years.
Not only did Charles work at the hotel…He lived there with his wife and two sons, River and Cody.”
Survivors, families of men who died of carbon monoxide exposure sue Faster Horses, MIS
“Families of three men who died of carbon monoxide poisoning while camping at the 2021 Faster Horses Festival are suing the event promoter and Michigan International Speedway, alleging the campground was overcrowded, unsafe and improperly monitored and inspected…Live Nation and the speedway, which owns the land, did not monitor or supervise the campsites, making the area unfit and dangerous for campers to safely use generators, alleges the pending lawsuit, filed in April in Lenawee County Circuit Court.”
Survivors, families of men who died of carbon monoxide exposure sue Faster Horses, MIS – mlive.com
Corroded exhaust pipe sparks carbon monoxide scare in Ann Arbor apartment building
Ann Arbor, MI –
“Emergency crews were called at 5:13 p.m. Feb. 3, to the Hidden Valley Apartments near State Street and E. Eisenhower Parkway for a report of significant levels of carbon monoxide detected in one of the buildings…source of the carbon monoxide leak was determined to be a severely corroded exhaust pipe for the building’s water heater…”
Corroded exhaust pipe sparks carbon monoxide scare in Ann Arbor apartment building – mlive.com
South Haven, MI, emergency team evacuates hotel due to carbon monoxide
“Fire personnel located the room with the greatest concentration of the gas at 150 ppm. They discovered a detached exhaust pipe from a natural gas-fired hot water heater and determined the carbon monoxide…was being released in the room…If CO alarms were not present or not operating properly this incident could have surely proven fatal.
SHAES (South Haven Area Emergency Services) withheld the name and address of the hotel to preserve anonymity.”
South Haven emergency team evacuates hotel due to carbon monoxide (msn.com)
NFPA Journal: General Negligence
“A new Fire Protection Research Foundation report highlights the nation’s enduring CO problem”
https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/nfpa/journal_2021spring/index.php?startid=20#/p/20
CO Detection: What It Is and Why We Need It
Firefighters credit CO alarms for saving lives at apartment complex
CO alarms alerted to a car left running in garage below in an apartment complex in Grand Traverse County, MI…https://www.9and10news.com/2019/02/20/firefighters-credit-carbon-monoxide-detectors-for-saving-lives-at-apartment-complex/
Hotel guests poisoned by CO while using pool
Guests poisoned in a Michigan hotel…https://www.petoskeynews.com/featured-pnr/pool-users-exposed-to-high-carbon-monoxide-levels-at-charlevoix/article_d9343da2-aae3-5a2f-9586-062d20d3f85e.html
1 dead, at least 11 poisoned by hotel CO leak in Niles, MI
“Hotel staff found the children lying unresponsive at an indoor pool deck and the breakfast area adjacent to the pool at 10 a.m. ET after noticing their figures through a window…The Fire Department also said it found one of the children in a first-floor room unconscious and not breathing…One hotel worker, along with two Berrien County officers and two Niles city police officers were also treated for exposure to the poisonous gas.”
7 people in Rochester Hills hospital after being exposed to Carbon Monoxide at Noodles and Company
“It happened at the Noodles & Co. in the Village of Rochester Hills Shopping Center.
Five employees were taken to the hospital with similar symptoms. A nurse recognized the symptoms and called emergency crews to inspect the building.”