Doctors and California carbon monoxide poisoning lawyers advise that carbon monoxide
detectors be installed not only in homes, but also in public buildings like
schools. That's because children
may be at risk of monoxide poisoning, as happened recently at a school in
Georgia. In spite of these risks,
few schools have installed these alarms, and only 2 states have made it
mandatory to install such alarms in schools.
Only Maryland and Connecticut have laws that
require schools to have carbon monoxide alarms installed their classrooms. This is in spite of the fact that over
the past 5 years at least, there have been several incidents in which students
have been forced to evacuate classrooms because of the risk of carbon monoxide
poisoning. According to an
investigation by USA Today, since 2007 alone, there were at least 19 incidents
in which students had to be evacuated from their classrooms because of fears of
carbon monoxide poisoning. These evacuations
involved more than 3,000 children.
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas,
and the fumes may begin to impact students and teachers before people even know
what is going on. By the time
people get alerted to the fact that there are toxic fumes in the school
building, it may be too late to act. In 2010, according to a report by the
National Fire Protection Association, there were 81,100 carbon monoxide
poisoning incidents that were reported.
None of these resulted in fires, but 90% of them occurred in homes or
apartments.
According to experts on the subject, every
school should have carbon monoxide alarms installed in the hallways and at
least near the pool areas.
Preferably, these alarms should also be installed in every
classroom.
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