A Lakewood family was hospitalized last night with elevated levels of Carbon Monoxide in their systems, officials tell TLS.
The family called emergency personnel shortly before midnight after feeling ill.
Upon arrival, the Lakewood Fire Department found high levels of Carbon Monoxide inside the home.
The family was transported to MMCSC where they remained for several hours.
It turns out the high levels of CO resulted from the home’s heating system being turned on for the first time of the season last night.
Emergency responders remind residents:
1) Always make sure you have an operating CO detector.
2) Never ignore or unplug a detector. If it’s beeping, it’s probably for a reason.
3) Should the alarm go off, immediately evacuate the home and phone emergency personnel.
Can you please specify whether there was a CO detector?
That’s really the bottom line.
If there wasn’t, then the moral of the story is to have one.
If there was, and it went off, then the point of the story is – well, should we be aware that when you start your heating it can produce elevated levels of CO?
If there was a detector, and it didn’t go off – well, that’s plain newsworthy.
May I recommend two pet peeves of mine:
NEVER give a baby a food for the first time at night or Shabbos.
NEVER run your heating system for the first time at night, always turn it in during the day and let it run for a few hours. .
1) family was not feeling I’ll
2) it was the co detector that went off and saved their lives B’Syata D’Shmaya
3) moral of the story. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE WORKING SMOKE AND CO DETECTORS!!!!
i don’t understand. the CO was from the leaking gas of the heating system? if so, wouldn’t it have smelled, like when the gas is on for too long on the stove before igniting? the other TLS post on this story sounds like they didnt smell anything
CO does not come from leaking gas but from improper combustion or ventilation. It is odorless. Please take a moment to google it and read up on it.
To Huh………CO is a tasteless, odorless gas, you can’t smell it, taste it or see it, it will only come from something with a FLAME, it can not be produced from a hotplate, crockpot ect. Carbon Monoxide is from improperly burned fuel.