Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple

Re:Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have ... by elihu on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:44PM (#13509123)

> White also responded to media inquiries about a neighbor’s report of the sound of a generator and an odor of burning rubber coming from the couple’s fourplex in the 3000 block of Deakin Street.

Sounds like they were likely running a laser cutter and the "generator" sound was actually an air compressor. (These are used to blow the smoke out of the way of the beam so that you get a cleaner, more accurate cut.)

Chlorine gas is a major risk with a lot of materials, but presumably there could by other kinds of nasty fumes depending on what they were cutting.

edit: others are saying that it was in fact CO, so I'll go with that. I'd still like to know what they were cutting, though.

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Re:Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have ... by Zitrax on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:30PM (#13510310)

> White said the police department received a noise complaint on Sept. 22, 2015, and when a police officer later contacted the complainant about the issue, the generator was no longer running.

2015. If that is about the same incident it's quite a while before the current event (unless it's a typo in the article).

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