CDC offers winter safety tips

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  For Immediate Release: Wednesday February 17, 2021
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been closely following the extreme weather events across the country and offers these tips to help keep you and your family safe.
  
  Learn how to protect yourself from deadly carbon monoxide poisoning: Carbon monoxide (CO) is produced by furnaces, vehicles, portable generators, stoves, lanterns, gas ranges, or burning wood. You can protect yourself from common sources of carbon monoxide poisoning, which can lead to serious illness or death. For example, don’t ever heat your house with a gas oven or burn anything in a stove or fireplace that is not vented. And if your power goes out, remember to never use a generator, charcoal grill, camp stove, or other gasoline- or charcoal-burning device inside your home, basement, or garage, or outside less than 20 feet from a window, door, or vent.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Electric Power Supplies Extreme Cold Weather Gasoline Inhalation Exposure Natural Disasters
• Document Type:
  Press Release
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7e4b04f89084cca66d542073de735810d1c6a569998e3d1b1ddc9e74850db061
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/102809/cdc_102809_DS1.pdf
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