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Check your homes

Jigger Boss

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Our neighbour passed away from Carbon Monoxide poisioning in his home either Thursday night or Friday morning. Apparently they were having problems with their furnace. They got his wife out and she is in the hospital. I just seen him Thursday afternoon and waved to him as he was coming off the ferry. Its still so hard to believe. :cry: :cry:

Check your homes everyone.
 

MsSage

Well-known member
Sorry about the loss of your neigbor.

Everyone time change is the perfect time to change batteries in BOTH smoke and CO alarms.
 

Silver

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Holy....... that's a sad deal for sure. I just hate to hear about deals like that that are so easily preventable.
I guess there's something to be said for heating with wood. :?
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

Well-known member
My carbon monoxide detector isn't battery powered. It plugs into a wall outlet. It's one of the first things I bought when we installed propane heating system.

Wasn't expensive at all.
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
Silver said:
Holy....... that's a sad deal for sure. I just hate to hear about deals like that that are so easily preventable.
I guess there's something to be said for heating with wood. :?

How could you not have a CO problem with wood? :???:
 

Kato

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Electric heat here, so not a problem.

I did see a huge problem once though. :shock: :shock: :shock: Many years ago I dropped by the elementary school our sons attended, and found it empty. The janitor was outside, so I asked him what was going on. He said that there had been a malfunction in the furnace, and that carbon monoxide got into the school. Most of the kids had been bussed to the hospital! I went straight there, and couldn't believe what I saw. This school had about 300 students, and it looked like half of them were there. There were kids everywhere, including laying and sitting out on the lawn. The worst cases were inside, but there were about a hundred outside, who weren't too bad off, yet still needed watching. I found my boys, and nephew, and was so happy to find them OK.

Carbon monoxide is heavy, and when it happened, the classes in the lower level were affected the worst. The kids just started falling out of their desks! The teachers were standing, so it didn't get to them as fast as the kids. Luckily the staff was level headed and quick thinking, and they evacuated everyone immediately. Only two students needed to spend the night in the hospital, and everyone else was home by supper.

It could have been so much worse than it was, and I'll never forget that day.
 
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