After Hurricane Katrina left much of the Gulf Coast in the dark last year, a dozen deaths and scores of carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings were blamed on portable gas-fired generators in the hands of those unfamiliar with their proper use.
Just days ago, in the Buffalo, NY area, after an early snowstorm turned out the lights for hundreds of thousands of residents, half the six storm-related deaths were attributed to CO poisoning during the use of portable generators. Area hospitals reported dozens of cases of CO poisonings caused by the appliances.
At least 222 Americans died from generator-linked carbon-monoxide poisoning from 2000 through 2005.
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