posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 11:29 AM
by
klehan
Michigan Holds Hearings on CO Risks
A colorless, odorless and deadly gas has the state discussing ways to keep Michigan
residents and visitors safer. The issue is over carbon monoxide.
The Michigan Department of Health, senators and carbon monoxide victims held a hearing to
address bills which would require carbon monoxide alarms in Michigan residences and
hotels. One advocate lost his son to carbon monoxide poisoning. He says it's a major
public health issue that Michigan must act on.
Richard Lueders, son died from carbon monoxide: "I am one of the few survivors who had
the kind of exposure to CO, that is on record and survived. I can tell you that there is
no smell, you don't have an idea that something is happening to you. You're simply fine
one moment and unconscious the next."
According to the Michigan Department of Health, our state had the sixth highest number of
carbon monoxide deaths nation wide between 1999 and 2004. At lest 14 states already have
legislation mandating CO alarms.