Carbon monoxide News

Boston - An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy died of carbon monoxide poisoning on Saturday after he sat in a running car for warmth while his father was shoveling snow to get the car out of a snow bank.

Each year hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada are killed in their homes by a particularly insidious killer. Learn what can be done to protect yourself and your loved ones from carbon monoxide.

A woman in east London used a barbecue indoors to dry clothes. The incident led to six people, including four children, being taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.

New research suggests that a commonly-used angina treatment drug called Ranexa (ranolazine) might be able to shield the heart from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Clements - Carbon monoxide appears to have been the only culprit for the loss of two campers over the weekend in Clements, California.

A red KIA Optima emitted deadly carbon monoxide, killing five teenage boys the day after Christmas. Juchen Martial had borrowed the car to celebrate his birthday with his four friends at a rented motel in Florida.

Washington - When you change your clocks this weekend, remember to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms too. The CPSC urges consumers to make a habit of replacing smoke and CO alarm batteries when the time changes

Halifax - This week is Fire Prevention Week in Canada which runs until Sunday October 10. This year's theme is Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With.

Carbon Monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, toxic gas that is produced when fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal, wood used in boilers, engines, oil burners, gas fires, water heaters, solid fuel appliances & open fires) do not burn properly. It kills.

Colton Dale will be buried in his favorite Halloween whale costume. His mother will bury her three-year-old son who was killed by his father. She had fought the courts trying to keep her son safe, the courts ordered her to let him visit his father.