The Voice of Reason with special guest Shawn Longerich, Executive Director for the Cyanide Poisoning Treatment Coalition (CPTC)

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On Thursday, July 29th The Voice of Reason featured special guest Shawn Longerich, Executive Director for the Cyanide Poisoning Treatment Coalition (CPTC) and can be found on the world wide web at www.FireSmoke.org. The mission of the CPTC is to “focus the required attention and resources on the issues, the CPTC aims to increase awareness about the risk of fire smoke cyanide exposure as it relates to Awareness, Prevention, Protection, Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment”.

The discussion included many things we don’t think about after the fire is put out. Shawn helps us explore the poisons in what we commonly call “smoke”. The discussion talks about many chemicals that are found in smoke that are deadly and why we should put more effort into not breathing them in during and after the fire is put out.