Posted on 12/29/2008 10:51:03 PM PST by george76
The news of a family’s death from carbon monoxide poisoning over Thanksgiving weekend may have saved the lives of a family ...
A family of eight bought the last three CO detectors from a store in Frisco and installed them Sunday night. Monday morning, the family was awoken when the detectors activated...
When firefighters arrived, they found the levels of CO were about 350 parts per million -- twice the toxic limit.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Some plug into wall outlets.
Easy way to save a life.
Required by law in Illinois. I already had two before the nanny law was passed.
“A team of technicians determined the house’s hot water and snow melting systems malfunctioned. This caused the extreme levels of carbon monoxide in the house.”
What the hey? Are they referring to some kind of water heater?
I bought one after reading that story as well.
carbon monoxide is left inside the house often from faulty venting.
Need fresh compustion air and good exhaust venting.
Sources can be most anything : gas hot water, gas heaters...even a wood burning fireplace or gas kitchen stove.
Getting several detectors before any laws is best.
I’m glad you did.
So often people think it can never happen to them, and I think that’s even more true in warmer clmate places where we hear very little about CO poisoning because it happens far less frequently. I know that’s true in CA where I live.
But I’m another survivor of chronic carbon monoxide exposure - thanks to a detector.
Friends laughed when I said I’d be giving everyone a CO detector that year for Christmas, but I can guarantee the people close to me all have (at least) one in their homes now.
Interestingly, even with electric everything, I get some alarms from the CO detectors in a poorly ventilated bedroom. I wonder why.
“Ours have lost their juice.”
A buddy of mine is a fire-fighter and came up with an ad campaign for his town many years ago. A picture of a blackened ceiling and a charred and melted smoke detector with the caption “Its batteries were dead, and so are the owners” or something to that effect.
I know it is so sad these sort of articles have to put a fire under some people’s butts—uh, like me. But if that that is the only thing blackened and charred that is a good thing (my butt not my ceiling. LOL.)
In my case I have a gas hot water heater but it burns outside air and vents the exhaust to the outside both via PVC pipe which is highly unlikely to develop leaks. In addition it is in the garage and not the house. Negative air pressure makes essentially no difference. I then use hot water to heat the house. So the chances of CO poisoning are very low.
There was a frequently posting freeper who lost her adult son to this. Weird AL lost both his parents to it too.
I am thinking it can’t happen if you have a window open, right?
Doesn’t matter how many detectors you get if you’re still as dumb as a rock and bring your generator into the garage or even better INTO THE HOUSE, Darwin will have his due.
Seems every hurricane has at least ONE death where somebody brings a generator into the house.
“Hey Maw, just put it over there in Sally’s room so it doesn’t keep us awake tonight.”
When we had a new water heater installed the town demanded an inspection certificate.
In order to get the certificate you had to have a carbon monoxide detector within ten feet of every bedroom.
You can buy them with a battery backup as well as simply a plug in.
We bought them and also mailed them to our kids for their homes.
Somehow CO is getting in.
Maybe a bad detector, but the bedroom should be looked at professionally.
Buy another detector to double check ?
We do not want to lose you.
Mechanics at auto garages , even with open bay doors, can inhale lots of CO.
It can take months or a hospital visit to reduce the blood poisoning of CO.
I read that as "Colorado" instead of "Carbon Monoxide." CO is getting into me for sure!
We do not want to lose you.
I dunno...last estimate of "FReepers who want to kill Gondring" was pretty durn high! ;-)
Probably a gas-fired heater with a network of pipes and valves on the roof; the heater uses outside air for burning and exhausts through a pipe in or adjacent to the roof; if the exhaust is blocked, the CO backs up into the living quarters.
That’s my guess.
Keep your drapes away from your heating outlet.
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