Notice and Warning
Hurricane Sandy Victims & Survivors, Emergency
& First Responder Professionals, Medical Providers:
Hurricane Katrina’s victims and survivors suffered a common natural disaster poisoning problem that is nowaprevalent critical poisoning riskfor you in the aftermathand devastation of Superstorm Sandy!
As storm devastation victims and survivors attempt to warm themselves, boil water (for safer drinking and hygiene) or cook, in crude and inappropriate combustion situations, they can easily cause subtle to serious toxins asphyxiation injuries to themselves, or to other individuals in the same breathing space.
The critical toxin of course, is Carbon Monoxide(CO),but it is always accompanied by Formaldehyde (H2CO—Carbon Monoxide’scombustion-created“wet”cousin),NOx and the other toxicVOCs* created in natural combustion.
Thissame combustionpoisoning experience needlesslyaffectsmillions of others in the U.S. because of ourcurrent misplaced Bureaucratic, Regulatory, and Medical trust,coupled with ourpublic complacency andour (deliberately)deficient education!But withsome simple understanding, awareness and common sense, most all of these combustion created poisoninginjuries and deathsare preventable!
— But once a poisoning has occurred, to radically reducerepeated injury or consequent death, First Responders,Fire Fighters, Paramedics, and Medical Providers need to immediately perform the now broadly availablenon invasivelight beamanalysis,blood, that is,“serum”saturationtest for Carbon Monoxide -- instead of only doing the “traditionalized”(common) practice ofperforming environmental air quality (breathing air safety) testing with an “Eagle” or equivalent (breathing air) atmospherictype tester to implicate or deduce a human poisoning or not.
Atmospheric (breathing air) testingalone is not reliable enough to determine if someone has been poisoned or not. Itis subject to the inconsistencies of the environment itself, fickle air currents and the sporadic nature of any crudely facilitated combustion source (the fire or smoldering embers)itself. Withoutthe reliableblood (Carboxyhemoglobin) test, Carbon Monoxide (with it associatedother combustion toxins) can easily be misdiagnosed, overlooked, or ignored. A wrong “diagnoses” also easily occurs even in a seriously poisoned individual who has been moved into clean air (and/or given oxygen before being actually tested), as he will outwardly appearrecovered (even though his blood CO is clearing –neurological, brain. and other vital deep tissue poisoning is quietly progressing with the previously inhaled, interstitially transported, deep tissues delivered, and already acting intracellularly).So withoutquick, affirmative blood saturation levelstesting, the victimmay unwittingly return or be returned to the initial poisoning spaceor situation, without knowledge or correction,to experiencefurther poisoninginjury, even death!
As the primary combustion toxin of concern, Carbon Monoxide, thankfully also has the easiest-to-identify blood-“color”-signature, so serves as the “flag” (visible marker) certifying thepresence of the other,not so easy toidentify, toxins ofFormaldehyde, NOx andcombustion VOCs* (*volatile organic compounds), equallydeadly and always presentwith it!
To First Responders and Medical Providers: There are serious, sometimes deadly, deficiencies in your first-responder guidelines and medical diagnostic protocols (since the mid-70s); specifically in the “response to caller” instructions, as well as, once on site, your spatial versus victim testing and evaluation, on-site treatment and/or transport, and follow-up treatmentand reporting allis “Washington DC” flawed.Instead the best adviceto give before you arrive: “Get the victim out, do not change anything else.” Have victim’s associates leave everything else exactly as it was (for your tests).
Most Fire Fighter units now carry portable RAD-57 PCO/Omlight spectrophotometer based testers, which have built-in capacity to immediately and simply perform an inexpensive, non-invasive, painlessfingertipclip-appliedlight-spectrophotometer“Pulse Oximeter/Carboximeter” evaluation. However, protocols often have a “Doctors’ Order Requirement” impediment to performing this test immediately—despite the fact that this test does not even prick the skin. It uses a harmless beam of light! If thistype of tester is not available, your option is doing an immediate blood draw/capture for a lab’s CO evaluation, while immediately treating with oxygen and/or transport (for hyperbaric O2) when indicated or even just suspected.
So, to Hurricane Sandy Victims and their Associates: To have a sure diagnoses and proper treatment in possible combustion fumes poisoningevents you mustdemandimmediate Carbon Monoxide testing of yourown or victims blood for its “Carboxyhemoglobin” (blood saturation)levels evaluation of Carbon Monoxide, andif positive, demand immediate oxygen (by mask), or when serious, hyperbaric treatment.
If FEMA brings their trailers or HUD’s manufactured homes (any model) to house you:Make sure you are informed through the GAO Report (and CDC-HHS-HUD’s admission) at LicenseToKill.us, thenToxicTrailers.com to avoid the injuries and deaths associated with those Katrina FEMA trailer or HUD housing placements. Be sure you see the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Investigation Report (and CDC’s admission of deadly code violations of HUD and FEMA).
— Thomas L Rodgers, 22 Dec [Orig 30 Oct] 2012, LicenseToKill.us,GassingAmerica.com Questions: 801-298-9095.
From toxictrailers.com: The government spent >$2 billion on FEMA trailers with hazardous levels of formaldehyde, and now has dumped more than 103,000 former FEMA trailers known to be toxic on the market. . . . The FEMA trailer tragedy exposed what is a widespread problem in RVs, mobile homes, modular buildings and even conventional buildings. Symptoms that could indicate a formaldehyde problem include having burning eyes, congestion, sore throat, coughing, breathing difficulties, frequent sinus infections or rashes, and difficulties concentrating.
FEMA spends millions on no bid contracts [for low-quality] emergency housing trailers [that] are no longer tested for formaldehyde. . . . Hurricane Sandy victims want to know if these are safe—probably not, knowing FEMA. FEMA [said that] they dropped formaldehyde testing because the same types of mobile homes are for sale all over the U.S. [However,] these are specially ordered by FEMA. . . . Despite Gadwill’s recommendation that TL Industries quality “just wouldn’t be acceptable to the private sector and shouldn’t be accepted by the government,” FEMA continued doing business with the firm.
The material above has been collected by Occupy Sandy New Jersey from and . Further details are available at those sites and in the GAO report, which may be found at . Materials edited for length.