Gloria P wrote:
> You may have read that a Denver couple and their two children who spent
> Thanksgiving in a $9m house in Aspen (a stay they won in a charity
> auction) died of CO inhalation from a faulty gas appliance there.
>
> A neighbor (whose son was a classmate of my son's) just called to tell
> me that her daughter-in-law and granddaughter were found unconscious in
> their house this afternoon by a babysitter who went to check on them.
> Her son called to ask the sitter to run next door after his wife called
> to say she and the 3 year old weren't feeling well. He then left for home.
>
> The sitter, a high school girl, found them both unconscious, carried the
> little one out and called 911 for an ambulance. Mom is in the
> hyperbaric chamber at a local hospital, the little girl is being
> discharged.
>
> A repairman was at the house this morning because their gas furnace
> wasn't working and it's FRIGID here right now. A few hours after he
> finished "repairs", the two were overcome.
>
> Mom is 8 weeks pregnant. Vibes are most welcome.
>
> If you have gas in the house anywhere, buy a CO detector, please. Buy
> one as a Christmas gift for your parents or children, too.


It happens more often than you think. A family of four from a city near
here died last week from CO poisoning. Actually, the mother was found
alive but later died. A good friend of mine got a dose of it while
chaperoning on a school trip He was staying at someone's home and was
awakened by a pain in his chest. Had he not woke up he likely would have
died. It took him months to recover.