After deadly incident, Legal Seafoods plans to install carbon monoxide detectors After deadly incident, Legal Seafoods plans to install carbon monoxide detectors

Updated: Monday, February 24 2014 10:09 PM EST2014-02-25 03:09:23 GMT

The popular Legal Seafoods restaurant in Huntington was especially packed Saturday night when 28 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty water heater in the basement. One person, restaurant manager Steve Nelson, died. Officials say the carbon monoxide level in the basement was so high that night it could render someone unconscious within minutes.

The popular Legal Seafoods restaurant in Huntington was especially packed Saturday night when 28 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty water heater in the basement. One person, restaurant manager Steve Nelson, died. Officials say the carbon monoxide level in the basement was so high that night it could render someone unconscious within minutes.

Updated: Monday, February 24 2014 9:44 PM EST2014-02-25 02:44:58 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting at the famous 127-room Oheka Castle in Huntington, Long Island. Cops are looking for a masked gunman, although no eyewitnesses to the shooting have come forward. Gary Melius, the property's owner, was shot in the head as he was getting into his car, according to officials. His daughter drove him to the hospital, where he underwent surgery. Police said they do not have a motive for the shooting.

Police are investigating a shooting at the famous 127-room Oheka Castle in Huntington, Long Island. Cops are looking for a masked gunman, although no eyewitnesses to the shooting have come forward. Gary Melius, the property's owner, was shot in the head as he was getting into his car, according to officials. His daughter drove him to the hospital, where he underwent surgery. Police said they do not have a motive for the shooting.

Updated: Monday, February 24 2014 8:41 PM EST2014-02-25 01:41:08 GMT

The third and final suburban New York police official accused of pulling strings to help the son of a wealthy department benefactor has been sentenced. Alan Sharpe, 54, pleaded guilty Monday to official misconduct, according to Nassau County district attorney's office. The former detective sergeant was sentenced to 150 hours of community service, a $1,000 fine and two years' probation.

The third and final suburban New York police official accused of pulling strings to help the son of a wealthy department benefactor has been sentenced. Alan Sharpe, 54, pleaded guilty Monday to official misconduct, according to Nassau County district attorney's office. The former detective sergeant was sentenced to 150 hours of community service, a $1,000 fine and two years' probation.

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HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) The weekend death of a restaurant manager on Long Island from carbon monoxide fumes has lawmakers considering new legislation to prevent future tragedies.

As WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported, Suffolk County legislator William Spencer said in the aftermath of the fatal incident at the Legal Sea Foods restaurant at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, all businesses inspected by the health department should be required to install carbon monoxide detectors.

Spencer also said first responders should be outfitted with CO detectors.

Our first responders should be protected. I think that they should have portable detectors so that when theyre rushing into an emergency situation, they can be aware, Spencer told Xirinachs.

Restaurant manager Steven Nelson, 55, was found dead in the basement of Legal Sea Foods Saturday night. More than two dozen other people were sent to hospitals for treatment.

Captain Mark Cappola told CBS 2s Andrea Grymes that he had no idea that carbon monoxide would hit him and other first responders when they arrived at the restaurant.

In retrospect I probably was feeling it more than I wanted to admit but most of its adrenaline thats keeping you going, he said.

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Modesto, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2014

Modesto plumbers at Rooter Pro Plumbing are now offering service discounts to save consumers money this summer. In addition to providing service discounts Rooter Pro Plumbing is also offering a $50 off coupon which can be used for any service over $500 and $15 off drain cleaning. They are also providing up front pricing to make it easy for consumers to know what they are getting into before agreeing to Modesto plumbing repair. We are offering this service discount for 10% off so everybody can afford the best service provider, says Les, Owner of Rooter Pro Plumbing. They can have an experienced Modesto plumber on site within an hour in most cases according to Les. If the drain is backed up or the hot water isnt working the need for a fast Modesto plumber is immediate. Our goal is to make all of our Central Valley customers happy.

Plumbers in Modesto California at Rooter Pro Plumbing are also offering other coupons in addition to the 10% off Modesto plumbing service discount. They are offering drain cleaning for $15 off when a proper clean out is present. Rooter Pro Plumbing is also offering a new water heater installation special where they will install a new electric water heater for $50 off. A quick search for Modesto plumber reviews on Google reveals that many people feel gouged by the plumber they hire. We strive for 100% complete customer satisfaction because 90% of our customers are repeat customers. We know if we treat people right they will come back to us for their entire plumbing repair needs, says Les.

Rooter Pro Plumbing also offers specialized services such as trenchless sewer repair and hydro-jetting, these technologies are used to fix and replace main sewer laterals. Most small plumbers in Modesto dont have the specialized equipment we have to do the jobs we do. We invest in the best equipment so we can get the job done quickly, which saves our customers money, says Les. A lot of the calls Rooter Pro Plumbing gets are from people who have been quoted a job by another plumber, but they want a second opinion. We are happy to provide people with competitive quotes for plumbing service. We provide no cost second opinions.

One of the most popular Modesto sewer repair service discounts currently being offered by Rooter Pro Plumbing is their $15 off drain cleaning coupon. Every time we offer a drain cleaning coupon we get a huge response. A lot of the calls we get are from people who called a plumber out for service and the price much higher than advertised, our Modesto plumbers will give people a fair price, says Les.

Rooter Pro Plumbing is also currently offering a coupon for $50 off of a new tankless water heater installation in Modesto. The coupon is applicable to removal of the old water heater, installation of the new water heater and any associated water or gas lines. When the hot water isnt working people usually want to get it fixed as quickly as possible but they dont want to get gouged. We send an experienced Central Valley plumber on site. Our goal is to see if we can do water heater repair before just replacing it. If a new water heater is needed or the customer wants to upgrade to a tankless hot water heater we provide a no cost estimate for the installation, says Les.

To learn more about Modesto drain cleaning at Rooter Pro Plumbing visit their website, watch their videos, read their press releases or read their many positive online plumber reviews on respected consumer review sites like Google, Yahoo, Yelp and Angies List for Modesto.

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CALEDONIA Royse Myers, who made his fortune in the heat-exchanger business, says hes designed a new heat-recovery system that could save energy and water used to run commercial dishwashers.

Myers proprietary heat recovery system was designed to make commercial dishwashers operate more efficiently. The Caledonia resident has formed Myers Heat Recovery Systems LLC and is patenting his new system.

Now hes ready to prove it will do what he says it will.

In 1969, Myers founded Thermal Transfer Products, now at 5215 21st St. The company built air-cooled and liquid-cooled heat exchangers. Its employment peaked at more than 300 people and $28 million in annual revenues when Myers sold it in 1999.

Myers said he started tinkering with his idea for a heat-recovery system for commercial dishwashers about five years ago, but plumbing code issues were interfering.

So I got a computer and started looking up components that were giving me problems, he said. I discovered some components from China that were just exactly what I wanted.

Low-temperature commercial dishwashers use water as it comes out of a water heater at 160 degrees, Myers said. High-temperature dishwashers have internal electrical heaters that boost the water temperature to 180 to 190 degrees.

Usually, the discharged dishwater goes directly down the drain, carrying its heat energy, he said. But Myers design would use a separate loop of liquid to capture some of the dishwaters heat before it goes to the sewer.

The captured heat would warm water before it enters the water heater, reducing the amount of energy needed to bring the next batch up to dishwasher temperature.

Myers hasnt even built a prototype system yet, and he knows his company is embryonic. His system is theoretical at this point, but I know its going to work, he said. He has a plumbing contractor ready to build his system, one order at a time.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Eight employees and one guest of the Westin Hotel at BWI went to the hospital, including four who went to the hyperbaric chambers at Shock Trauma, to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Now Eric Hammack with the Anne Arundel County Department said a flue valve related to the water heater in the laundry room caused the leak.

A carbon monoxide leak could have deadly consequences. Fire officials say a reading of 35 parts per million for carbon monoxide is when they become concerned. When they arrived at the Westin, they found readings much higher.

The highest readings at the Westin Hotel was 700 to 800 parts per million, Hammack said.

Making matters worse, the Westin Hotel did not have any CO detectors as only new hotels built after 2013 are required to do so. Because of the problems this past weekend at the hotel, Anne Arundel county fire officials insisted some carbon monoxide detectors be installed.

Our code enforcement unit has required them to install carbon monoxide detectors in the laundry room where the leak was and the areas close by the laundry room, Hammack said.

This incident has gotten the attention of lawmakers in Annapolis. Sen. Joan Carter-Conway has introduced emergency legislation that will effect older hotels exempted from having CO detectors.

I thought we should have the bill for all hotels and have carbon monoxide detectors in each of them, Carter-Conway said.

Conway says that costs associated with this bill shouldn't be a concern to the hotel industry if it becomes a law.

If it does, become a law, it saves a life, she said.

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That 60 gallon tank of hot water in your basement eats up a lot of energy. But tankless on-demand water heaters leave you running water down the drain while you wait for warmth. This tiny Kickstarter water heater promises to change all that, and save you money, thanks to some fascinating technology.

The team behind the Heatworks Model 1 says the foot-long device can deliver instantaneous hot water on demand, saving 40% on energy costs and 10% on wasted water compared to an electric tank-style heater. One unit supplies enough endless hot water for one shower at a time, while larger households could install a unit at every bathroom, saving money on hot water piping and cutting out minutes spent waiting for hot water to arrive.

The key is how the Model 1 heats the water. Unlike current tankless electric heaters, which use a corrosion- and failure-prone metal coil, Heatworks relies on submerged graphite electrodes that use the water around them as a resistor. This, they say, gives you instant heat, rather than the 30-second wait associated with other tankless systems.

Sure, this all sounds great, and with the Kickstarter already past goal, it looks like Heatworks will have the money they're seeking to start production. But being funded on Kickstarter is entirely different from producing a reliable product in quantity. Even if they make it, are you willing to trade the familiar water heater any plumber can fix in the middle of the night for a high-tech energy saver that runs on the future? It's a gamble, and a cold shower is the loser's lot. [Kickstarter]

Update: Prompted by a number of comments asking whether there's any risk of being electrocuted by this device, we reached out to Heatworks for clarification. Founder Jerry Callahan explained via email:

Yes, we pass currents through the water, but here is why no one should be concerned;

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A Staten Island public elementary school is getting more than $1 million dollars in federal emergency funding to help cover repairs made to the school after Hurricane Sandy, but that is only a drop in the bucket considering what needs to be done. NY1's Bree Driscoll filed the following report.

Principle Jane McCord greets students at P.S. 52 every morning.

As they make their way in, they have to hop over broken concrete, damage left over from Hurricane Sandy.

"I never anticipated that I'd be 15 months out with plans still not on the table," McCord said.

Hurricane Sandy devastated the building.

"I was here the following morning, and we opened the door to the basement, and you couldn't go down," McCord said. "The water came up to the second step."

The school's boiler, electrical, ventilation, hot water and telephone systems were all destroyed. Students were forced to relocate to the Petrides School for about a month.

Since the storm, the student population has dropped by about 75.

"Many of our families moved away and haven't been able to return," McCord said. "Some still hope to return."

The school has a new ventilation and electrical system, paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but the boiler is temporary, and the hot water heater is much smaller than what was there before.

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That 60 gallon tank of hot water in your basement eats up a lot of energy. But tankless on-demand water heaters leave you running water down the drain while you wait for warmth. This tiny Kickstarter water heater promises to change all that, and save you money, thanks to some fascinating technology.

The team behind the Heatworks Model 1 says the foot-long device can deliver instantaneous hot water on demand, saving 40% on energy costs and 10% on wasted water compared to an electric tank-style heater. One unit supplies enough endless hot water for one shower at a time, while larger households could install a unit at every bathroom, saving money on hot water piping and cutting out minutes spent waiting for hot water to arrive.

The key is how the Model 1 heats the water. Unlike current tankless electric heaters, which use a corrosion- and failure-prone metal coil, Heatworks relies on submerged graphite electrodes that use the water around them as a resistor. This, they say, gives you instant heat, rather than the 30-second wait associated with other tankless systems.

Sure, this all sounds great, and with the Kickstarter already past goal, it looks like Heatworks will have the money they're seeking to start production. But being funded on Kickstarter is entirely different from producing a reliable product in quantity. Even if they make it, are you willing to trade the familiar water heater any plumber can fix in the middle of the night for a high-tech energy saver that runs on the future? It's a gamble, and a cold shower is the loser's lot. [Kickstarter]

Update: Prompted by a number of comments asking whether there's any risk of being electrocuted by this device, we reached out to Heatworks for clarification. Founder Jerry Callahan explained via email:

Yes, we pass currents through the water, but here is why no one should be concerned;

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This Football-Sized Device Could Replace Your Huge Water Heater

Putting solar panels on your roof will only take you so far. The trick is finding ways to use more of the electricity in your home and send less of it to the grid where you will likely be charged per kilowatt-hour for your share of upkeep.

It makes little sense to be anti-solar energy in this day and age, although it does make sense to do it right.Even solar can be done wrong. Usurping farmland, forest, or pristine desert tortoise habitats for solar should be against the rules.

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I was motivated to do this post by a rare, cloudless, 50 degree day in the dead of winter.

If you put grid-tied solar panels on your house to eliminate your electric bill, you may one day be billed for use of the grid anyway.Some solar panel owners are already paying about 25% for use of the grid. Thats because, like natural gas and coal, solar panels are essentially a source of energy (fuel) for an electrical grid,which is only one component of the total cost. Power grids are like roads and sewer lines in that we all have to pay our fair share for their use. Im OK paying an extra fee for my electric car which pays no gasoline taxes. Im also OK with temporary government subsidies to test the waters for new technologies.

Some percentage of most electric bills goes to pay the fuel costs at the power plant. In my neck of the woods almost98% of our power comes from hydro (90%), wind (4%), and nuclear (4%), which have no or very low fuel costs. Yet we stillpay roughly 9 cents per kWhfor residential electricity.The average American pays about 12 cents. The difference in cost (12 9 = 3 cents per kWh) is mostly fuel. The other 9 cents is what it costs to get the electricity to you, expand or maintain the grid infrastructure, pay for Federal programs, etc. This means that someone who offsets all of their electricity use with grid tied solar panels might one day, in theory, end up paying something like 75% of their original electricity bill (12 cents 3 cents for fuel costs = 9 cents = 75% of 12 cents).

However, if your highest priority is to use less fossil fuels (willing to spend more to accomplish that), then volunteering to pay more for your electricity isnt necessarily a bad thing, in fact, one could argue that its a noble thing. If wind, solar, and nuclear really do cost more than fossil fuels, maybe paying a little extra to get rid of fossil fuels isnt a bad idea.

One method to reduce the various monthly grid use charges beginning to show up on electric bills by owners of grid-tied solar panels (who are essentially very small power companies) is to find ways to use more of the electricity in your own home (send less of it to the grid where you will likely be charged per kWh for your share of upkeep).

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