A grant from Michigan Gas Utilities will enable South Haven Area Emergency Services to protect its first responders from carbon monoxide when they’re out on calls.

SHAES Director Brandon Hinz tells us the $2,000 grant through the company’s Rewarding Responders Grant Program will pay for eight small carbon monoxide detectors that attach to the response bags carried by paramedics.

“ We respond to quite a few carbon monoxide alarm activations on an annual basis,” Hinz said. “ Some of them are legit activations. So we push pretty hard for folks to have carbon monoxide detectors in their homes.”

Hinz says there was an incident some years back when SHAES personnel were overcome by carbon monoxide during an EMS call.

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