Beware of Carbon Monoxide
Larry Weiss
details of what happened - What kind of boat? Was it an installed
genset or a portable generator? If it was installed, HOW was it
installed? If portable, how was it being used? Was it the generator at
all? How did this happen? If you see a follow up article or more
details, please let us know.
Larry Weiss
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> Family, friends mourn pair who died camping on boat
> [La Crosse Tribune Special Report] By BOB GUTSCHE JR. Of the Tribune staff
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> Larry Frohmader's main memories of his son, Brad,
> were of the many fishing outings the pair had at the
> family's cabin in Wisconsin Rapids.
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> He remembers Brad jumping to attention when the small
> bobber dipped under the cool water of the lake and
> how Brad would act as though the fish could pull him
> from the boat.
>
> But mostly Larry remembers how his son loved being on
> the water -- above all, the Mississippi River.
>
> ``We spent thousands of hours boating out on that
> river,'' Larry Frohmader said Sunday afternoon.
> ``Brad had a passion for the river that was hard to
> explain. If he had a chance to be out there, he was
> gone.``
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> Brad, 22, died on the river Saturday night, along
> with friend Christopher Jordan, 19, when carbon
> monoxide gas apparently filled the cabin of their
> boat.
>
> ``He died doing what he loved doing,'' his father
> said.
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> The deadly gas also sent Brad's friend and roommate,
> Shawn Carney, 21, to Hennepin County Medical Center
> in Minneapolis. Carney was in stable condition Sunday
> afternoon.
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> The Houston County Sheriff's Department, which is
> investigating the deaths, said the three were on the
> Jordan family boat on the south end of Coney Island,
> about a mile and a half south of the Seventh Street
> boat landing. Other friends who were camping on the
> island found the three Saturday morning, Brad
> Frohmader and Jordan already dead and Carney
> unconscious.
>
> ``They loved the river and they got us to love it,
> too,'' said Brad's friend, Matt Ellenz. ``We were all
> friends, but it is more like we are brothers.``
>
> With bloodshot eyes and tears on his cheek, Larry
> Frohmader sighed deeply as he talked about what the
> river meant to his 22-year-old son. He said Brad
> often camped, fished and boated on the river -- all
> activities the entire family sometimes did together.
>
> Pointing out on a map where the Jordan boat was on
> Friday, Larry noted, ``I never realized how close he
> was to me that night.``
>
> Brad worked for about six years docking boats for
> SkipperLiner Industries in La Crosse and was known as
> ``the guy who could drive anything,'' his father
> said.
>
> He described his son as caring, honest and
> hardworking. ``My mother died about five years ago
> and she would refer to Brad as her little, patient
> fisherman,'' he said, with a soft smile. ``They would
> sit there fishing for hours, even if they didn't
> catch anything. He was an honest-to-goodness good
> kid.``
>
> Chris Jordan's father, Noel, used much the same words
> in talking about his son.
>
> ``He just filled my heart with joy whenever he
> smiled,'' said Noel Jordan, who owns SkipperLiner
> Industries. ``When you could get him to smile, he had
> the world's greatest smile.``
>
> With one year completed at the University of
> Minnesota's Institute of Technology, where he was
> studying for an engineering career, Chris Jordan was
> glad to be home for the summer with his friends and
> family, his father said.
>
> Noel Jordan said he talked to his son three times
> Friday night. ``He was my best friend,'' he added
> after a long pause.
>
> ``His best friends were his family,'' Noel Jordan
> added. ``Chris and his brothers and sisters were one
> big team.'' Chris Jordan had two sisters, Katie and
> Tami, and two brothers, Todd and Robert.
>
> Chris Jordan often went water-skiing, boating and
> fishing on the Mississippi River with friends and
> family, and had spent most of his life near water.
>
> On land, he was a strong tennis player who qualified
> for state high school competition in 1998, as a
> junior, his father said. Noel Jordan related a summer
> trip in which he and his son traveled to Florida to
> visit professional tennis trainers.
>
> In a mixture of tears and laughter, the Jordan family
> met Sunday afternoon and engulfed themselves in
> stories, memories and photos. ``I just want people to
> know that he was wonderful,'' said his mother,
> Barbara.
>
> Shawn Carney's parents, Mike and Cindi Carney, spent
> most of the weekend at the medical center, where
> Carney was still unconscious Sunday afternoon. ``This
> is just a waiting game,'' said Mike Carney. ``We are
> just taking it minute by minute, hour by hour.
>
> ``Everything you could do on the river, they have
> done ... They were all buddies who loved the river,''
> he said. ``This was a routine outing on the river
> that turned tragic.``
>
> Mike Carney said he believes the incident was an
> accident, caused by the boat's generator. ``I will
> believe that until I hear from an official that it
> was anything more than that,'' he said. ``These were
> all good kids and this is a sad tragedy.``
>
> Bob can be reached at bgut...@hotmail.com.
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Gary Shorrel
a URL. Guess I will ask someone. If I get
any additional info on this tragedy. e.g.
boat/genset info etc. will post it.
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Waterlou4
a URL. <<
To post a URL, just type it into the text of your post, preceded by http://
You can also post the text of a web page this way: right-click on it, then
pick View Source. It will come up as a document, probably Notepad. Cut and
paste it into your post, then edit out the HTML code.
Silver Fox
type of gas heater/cooker.
We (New Zealand) have had similar tragedies involving gas cookers/stoves
inside tents out in the great outdoors. It is something many never think
of and I guess the warnings are not exactly obvious.
Personally I do not allow any gas appliance to be operated in my boat or
in our tent when camping choosing to use these in the open air only.
Silver Fox