Posted on 12/01/2015 6:29:04 PM PST by rickmichaels
Toronto Fire Services says a father will be charged for allegedly disabling a detector that resulted in four people going to hospital for carbon monoxide exposure.
Fire Services rescued two adults and one child from a home on West Wareside Road after receiving a call in the early morning hours of Nov. 25. Someone in the home who was having difficulty staying conscious had called 9-1-1.
A firefighter was also taken to hospital for carbon monoxide exposure.
According to Fire Services, the carbon monoxide readings in the home exceeded 900 million parts per million, well above accepted levels.
Toronto Fire said the homeowner had disabled the home's carbon monoxide detector a week earlier because it repeatedly went off, so he assumed the unit was defective.
According to the Hawkins-Gignac Act, all residential homes are required to maintain and test carbon monoxide detectors.
The maximum penalty for disabling a carbon monoxide detector is $50,000 and one year in jail.
The Hawkins-Gignac Act was unanimously passed by the Ontario legislature in 2013, and is named after OPP Constable Laurie Hawkins-Gignac, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning with her family in 2008.
I guess the fines are worse for contributing to Gorebull warming?
That’s a lot of parts.....per million.
Oh well. Someday it will get fixed.
/johnny
Idiot.
“900 million parts per million”? Doesnt anybody edit the crap these moronic ignorant reports spew? Geeze Louise.
Nearly a billion parts per million.
How do they do it?
VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!
Is it wrong that I’m laughing out loud here?
I’s good no one died. Can you imagine explaining yourself at the pearly gates?
“So, why are you here?”
“Well, St. Peter, I turned off my carbong monoxide alarm because it kept going off and some how I died from asphyxiation.”
you must have learned under the old math.
LoL. Uh, you might say that, ya.
Probably “Common Core” math performed without the Common Sense denominator.
What madness. This is “ham sandwich?”. I would nullify so fast!!
he assumed the unit was defective
Not uncommon. There was a New England MD that did the same thing several years ago. Unplugged the unit, then went to work, Came home to dead wife and kids.
How many times have you read fire reports with “no working smoke detectors in residence” included in the report.
Common sense is less common every day.
If you think that when your various and assorted detectors are defective every time they go off ... why have them? Go with your instincts and see were that gets you.
They can have a high failure rate. Plus, very few home owners know that both CO and smoke detectors have an expiration date, It is a real chore to even find the date on a detector still in the box, mounted on the ceiling requires removing it and removing at least the cover.
How many homeowners clean their detectors regularly as per the manufacturer;s instructions?
All good points, but why take a chance. Either believe your detectors and be wrong or don’t even bother having them.
And there're enough cheap, crappy units on the market that people are reluctant to pay the price of the few brands that actually work.
Easy. . . It was a Black Hole!
Absolutely correct.
A quick amazon search shows some real cheap chinese made units. A half a dozen different “brands” but obviously the same manufacturer.
Laws (building code) require smoke detectors in the US, but the quality is up to the builder. Inspection passes as long as it is screwed to the ceiling/wall. No quality control, and no ops check required.
My own story:
About 20 years ago I was eating lunch with my wife in our kitchen when the smoke alarm went off in the hallway. My first reaction, what the hell is wrong with that damn thing now?”
I walk into the hallway and the bathroom is on fire. The vent fan had stalled and set itself on fire.
Wife calls 911, I get the dry chem and extinguish the fire.
About $2,000 in damage, but another 2 or 3 minutes and it would have been beyond the point where I could control it with the extinguisher.
Talk about a life lesson.
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