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Two Americans were found dead in their hotel room at the Hotel Ranch Pescadero in Los Cabos Two Americans were found dead in their hotel room at the Hotel Ranch Pescadero in Los Cabos (Picture: GETTY) Two Americans were found dead in a luxury hotel room in Mexico’s scenic Los Cabos region. Paramedics were rushed to the seaside town of El Pescadero in Baja California Sur on Tuesday after two Americans were found dead at their resort. The two American tourists were identified as a man and a woman, both in their mid-30s. They have not yet been named. The...

Five people are fighting for their lives after being poisoned by carbon monoxide while trying to stay warm, according to the Dodge City Police Department.Dodge City Police Officers were dispatched shortly after 4 a.m. Monday to the 100 block of 16th Ave in Dodge City. The call they were responding to reported dead people inside a house.Once at the scene, officers say they were able to see two people slumped over in a living room through a window. The officers went inside the house and noticed the two people inside were breathing very shallow.Officers reported smelling the “familiar odor of...

Migraine headaches, fatigue and dizziness were sidelining Bert Henriksen several times a week. Evenings were the worst, after his 50-km commute home in his 2017 Ford Explorer. His behaviour grew erratic. He’d get angry over minor things. “We were getting scared that he had some kind of a brain problem,” said his wife, Megan. An answer came last March in a phone call from his doctor: A blood test revealed Henriksen had been exposed to toxic levels of carbon monoxide gas. But how? He says his prime suspect was parked in his driveway. Henriksen is among more than 3,000 Ford...

A simple molecule in the atmosphere that acts as a "detergent" to breakdown methane and other greenhouse gases has been found to recycle itself to maintain a steady global presence in the face of rising emissions, according to new NASA research. Understanding its role in the atmosphere is critical for determining the lifetime of methane, a powerful contributor to climate change. The hydroxyl (OH) radical, a molecule made up of one hydrogen atom, one oxygen atom with a free (or unpaired) electron is one of the most reactive gases in the atmosphere and regularly breaks down other gases, effectively ending...

Some of the Austin Police Department's Ford Explorer SUVs are going back into service. APD took almost 400 of the patrol vehicles out of service due to carbon monoxide leaks. They say detectors inside the explorers went off 70 times. Several officers were sickened. In two months, 10 vehicles have been repaired. APD says it ran its own tests on the repaired vehicles, and they are now being transitioned back into service.

Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? By Irene Mona Klotz, Discovery News The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 March 5, 2004 — Perhaps it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern that sparked the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed the downtown area and claimed 300 lives. New research lends credence to an alternative explanation: The fire, along with less-publicized and even more deadly blazes the same night in upstate Wisconsin and Michigan, was the result of a comet fragment crashing into Earth's atmosphere. The comet theory has been around — and most often discarded...

Some of the world’s biggest automakers should have recalled millions of vehicles with keyless ignitions because the cars, which don’t shut off automatically if the driver fails to press the start/stop button, could be a deadly carbon monoxide risk, according to a new lawsuit. According to the suit, filed in Los Angeles Federal Court on behalf of keyless car drivers Wednesday, there have been at least 13 deaths -- and a number of close calls -- from carbon monoxide poisoning after consumers failed to manually shut off their engines. The suit claims, “Reasonable drivers mistakenly believe that removing the Keyless...

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP) — A single dad and his seven children were found dead in their one-story home, relatives said, and though officials gave no details on the cause of the deaths, the man's stepfather said he had been trying to keep the family warm with a generator after the power was cut because of an outstanding bill. Lloyd Edwards told The Associated Press that his stepson, 36-year-old Rodney Todd, had bought the generator after the power was shut off to the home in Princess Anne, about 60 miles southeast of Annapolis on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He said those...

This recall involves Kidde branded AC/DC powered residential Carbon Monoxide / smoke alarms models KN-COSM-IBACA, i12010S-CO-CA and i12010S-CA. Approximately 112,000 units were sold in Canada at various retailers and 670,000 units were sold in the United States. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kidde-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-detectors-recalled-1.2763753

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Two adults and three children were found dead Saturday inside a small cabin in north-central Pennsylvania, authorities say. State Police Capt. David Young told the Williamsport Sun-Gazette the bodies were discovered by the owner of the 10- by 16-foot cabin just before noon in rural Washington Township in Lycoming County. Young said the preliminary investigation showed no signs of foul play and the cause of the deaths was not considered suspicious. But state police are looking at all possibilities, including carbon monoxide poisoning, he said. A propane heater was found inside the cabin.....

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – One person is dead and at least two dozen others were rushed to area hospitals for apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at a mall on Long Island Saturday evening. As CBS 2′s Hazel Sanchez reported, police said 55-year-old Steven Nelson, the manager of the Legal Sea Foods restaurant located at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, was killed by the odorless gas. total of 28 people were also rushed to area hospitals and treated for elevated levels of carbon monoxide, 1010 WINS reported. “The original call was that a woman had fallen and had a head...

Steve Neal, Chicago's premiere political columnist for decades, famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of history and political lore, for endlessly swapping stories with political junkies and for his books that ranged from a biography of Wendell Wilkie to the correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman, died Wednesday at his Hinsdale home. He was 54 and had been hospitalized overnight this week at Northwestern Hospital for a heart problem, his family said. Hinsdale police said they responded to a “carbon monoxide alarm’’ Wednesday afternoon at the home. Mr. Neal was among the city's most savvy political analysts, but unlike many...

Note to Chris Matthews: when seeking to slam Republicans for their supposed ignorance of science, try not to expose your own. On Tuesday's Hardball, Matthews—mocking the Republican congressmen vying for the chairmanship of the House Science Committee— committed this whopper: "As we all learned in grammar school—young people watching—trees absorb carbon monoxide." Uh, no, Chris. As even an MSNBC host might know, carbon monoxide is a toxic gas produced when there is insufficient oxygen to permit complete oxidation. Think running car in closed garage. Trees absorb carbon dioxide. Perhaps it was just a slip of the overworked Matthews' tongue, but...

Inhaling low levels of CO reduces the impact of environmental stress, TAU researcher findsAccording to scientists, carbon monoxide (CO), a tasteless, colorless and odorless gas, is not only a danger to the environment but also highly toxic to human beings. Found in the exhaust of vehicles and generators, CO has been dubbed the "silent killer" because excessive inhalation is lethal, poisoning the nervous system and heart. Now, in a surprising twist, Prof. Itzhak Schnell of Tel Aviv University's Department of Geography and the Human Environment has discovered that low levels of the poisonous gas can have a narcotic effect that...

MIAMI -- Five young men who police said died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Florida motel room were constant companions who acted like brothers and even went shoe shopping together before Christmas so they all would have the same pair, relatives said Tuesday.

A St. Paul couple is in critical condition after being poisoned by carbon monoxide in their home on the 1000 block of Hague Avenue. The St. Paul Fire Department said the couple's son came home and found them unconscious in their bed and called 911 around 3:50 p.m. The fire department arrived and took John Nordeen, 67, and his wife, Nancy, 62, to Hennepin County Medical Center. Firefighters found 300 parts per million of carbon monoxide in the home, which is toxic. The basement of the home had more than 850 parts per million. Firefighter suspect the poisoning could've been...

San Antonio police suspect three people, who were found dead inside their home Thursday afternoon, might have been killed from carbon monoxide poisoning. Detective Raymond Roberts said a Hummer parked inside the garage was allowed to run until its fuel tank became empty. The Hummer's keys were still in the ignition when investigators arrived. Roberts said carbon monoxide poisoning could have been the cause of death because no signs of trauma were found on the bodies. It was immediately unknown if the door to the garage was left open or how the poisonous gas was able to permeate into the...

Thirty-four people were hospitalized late Tuesday with carbon monoxide poisoning after a family used a barbecue cooker inside a garage ... "This all could have been avoided if they'd had a carbon monoxide detector in their home,"

The news of a family’s death from carbon monoxide poisoning over Thanksgiving weekend may have saved the lives of a family ... A family of eight bought the last three CO detectors from a store in Frisco and installed them Sunday night. Monday morning, the family was awoken when the detectors activated... When firefighters arrived, they found the levels of CO were about 350 parts per million -- twice the toxic limit.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bush administration has violated legal deadlines for updating the nation's clean-air standards on carbon monoxide, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White told the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to follow a schedule that would allow a full scientific review, public comment and any proposed changes in the standard to take place by May 2011. The EPA had proposed a timetable that would extend through October 2012. Carbon monoxide, an odorless and invisible byproduct of incomplete combustion in auto exhaust, refinery fumes and other emissions of fossil fuels, is lethal...