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Show Mobile Camper Users Cautioned About Suffocation Mobile camping equipment users were cautioned by the Utah Safety Council to be alert for possible carbon monoxide poisoning, especially during the winter months. "All too often," Robert G. Ingersoll, Council Director reported, re-ported, "the hunter, skier or fisherman will get inside, out of the cold, and turn on a heating heat-ing device which is either defective de-fective or one which will consume con-sume all the oxygen supply. When this occurs in an airtight air-tight enclosure, then trouble begins. "Carbon monoxide is dangerous danger-ous because it sickens and kills by cutting off the oxygen supply sup-ply from the body's tissues." Each year, several deaths are reported as resulting from carbon monoxide poisoning. During the 1970 hunting season several lives were lost because 1 of this situation. "Carbon monoxide is odorless, odor-less, tasteless, colorless and extremely ex-tremely deadly," Ingersoll said "Its greatest enemy is fresh air. If you are using a heater or cooking stove to heat your camping equipment, make certain cer-tain that you have a source of fresh air. All you need is enough to dissipate any accumulation accum-ulation of carbon monoxide." Symptoms of carbon monoxide monox-ide poisoning are tightness a-cross a-cross the forehead, headache, weariness, weakness, dizziness, nausea, loss of muscular control con-trol and increased pulse and respiration. If you experience any of these symptoms, make for fresh air in a hurry. "So far this year," Ingersoll said, "we have not had any reports of persons losing their lives from carbon monoxide poisoning. The important thing is to continue this death-free record." |