Carbon Monoxide Detector is Essential

[Jules]

Having a carbon monoxide detector is essential and make sure it’s in working order.

Friends of a friend are lucky to be alive. They raise specialty birds and she woke up to find six dead at the bottom of the cage. They’d had headaches for a couple of days. Fortunately they recognized the canary in the coal mine situation. That was a close call.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Last year our complex mandated that we get new smoke-carbon monoxide detectors. Its a combo unit in which the battery only needs to be changed every 10 years. Problem with that is how to remember when those 10 years are up. Good reminder that we need to check them often. Thank you Jules. Admittedly, we don't do that.

A few years ago, I saw a heartbreaking story about a family that was staying in an Air BnB. I believe it was a couple and their son (or it may have been two children). They all died from carbon monoxide poisoning.