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Carbon monoxide: Generators can poison you even when they are outside (Biloxi Sun Herald)

WARNING: Carbon monoxide kills hurricane survivors.

The irritating buzz of portable generators is a necessity in the powerless hours following a blackout for those attempting to save refrigerated foods, or power a TV or air conditioner. But you and your family could pay the ultimate price for such luxuries.

Quoted, David Van Sickle, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Social Scholar at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.