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BlogsCARBON MONOXIDESubmitted by Byron Duerksen on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 16:35.GOVERNOR SIGNS CARBON MONOXIDE BILL
SACRAMENTO – On Friday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 183 into law, requiring that alarm devices be installed in California’s existing single-family homes by mid-2011.
This legislation brings the Golden State in-line with other states and municipalities nationwide that have enacted laws to help protect residents from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning including New York, Minnesota and Illinois.
Claiming hundreds of lives each year, CO is the number one cause of accidental poisoning in the United States.
Colorless and odorless, carbon monoxide is virtually impossible to detect without a CO alarm. A 2009 study conducted by First Alert revealed that nearly half (47 percent) of U.S. households are not equipped with these lifesaving devices.
The California Air Resources Board also sites 30 to 40 “avoidable deaths” each year in California due to unintentional CO poisoning.
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