Baltimore County considers CO detectors
Associated Press
11/04/09 4:25 PM PST
TOWSON, MD. — The Baltimore County Council is scheduled to vote a bill that would require all rental dwellings be equipped with carbon-monoxide detectors.
Maryland law requires all dwellings built after Jan. 1, 2008, to have carbon-monoxide detectors. The Baltimore County proposal would require all rental dwellings in Baltimore County built before then to have carbon-monoxide detectors outside of each sleeping area.
In July 2005, a man and his two stepdaughters died in an rented town house in Essex from carbon-monoxide poisoning.
The Baltimore County Fire Department says in 2005, there were 895 recorded carbon monoxide incidents in the county, according to the fire department. Last year, there were 1,355.
The bill is scheduled for a vote on Dec. 21.
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Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com
