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Monoxide Poisoning
This story was co-published with The Atlantic.
After Hurricane Irma hit three months ago in Orlando, Florida, the local police got a desperate 911 call from a 12-year-old boy reporting that his mother and siblings were unconscious. Fumes overcame the first deputy who rushed to the scene. After the police arrived at the property, they found Jan Lebron Diaz, age 13, Jans older sister Kiara, 16, and their mother Desiree, 34, lying dead, poisoned from carbon monoxide emitted by their portable generator. Four others in the house went to the hospital. If 12-year-old Louis hadnt made that call, they might have died, too.
Portable generators release more carbon monoxide which is particularly dangerous because it is odorless and invisible than most cars. As a result, the devices can kill efficiently and quickly, though accidentally. The Diaz family usually placed the generator properly, outside the house, a neighbor told local reporters. But for some reason, they had brought it into their garage. From there, the generators murderous byproduct spread silently through the house.
During hurricanes, floods, and noreasters, portable generators save lives except when they take them. Irma, Harvey, and Maria all left thousands without power and reliant on their portable generators. The government has not yet done its official count, but 11 people using these generators died just from Irma, according to preliminary government estimates. Many more died from Harvey and Maria, experts say, especially in Puerto Rico, which has been without a functioning power grid for months.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning
Ann Marie Buerkle, job description just in the letters CPSC means Consumer Product Safety Commission, she has failed in that job description and should be fired
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(24,713 posts)and other nefarious actions of not using common sense, making over $150,000 a year, she has apparently no clue what the words mean in Consumer Product Safety Commission, and just sits there on a stool, not knowing or caring that she has the power to make decision over life and death , and she is not pro-life, she is pro-death