Buy a CO detector, please!
In article >,
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.
>
> gloria p
You have my best wishes... and a hope that they may switch to an
electric furnace.
CO dangers are the second reason I refused to have a gas appliance in my
house. They stink, they are dirty and they are dangerous! I grew up in
a residence with an electric furnace, water heater and stove.
That is why I hate them so.
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Peace! Om
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