Cardon Monoxide (CO) sensors

[J]

Something tragic happened in my area this last week and I wanted to pass it on. There was a family that had a furnace malfunction while the kids (2 teenagers and 2 pre teens) were home after school and they were found unresponsive. 3 have died of carbon monoxide poinoning so far and the 4th is in critical condition.

Check your CO sensors, if you dont have any, get some.

[PJ]

Great advice J. Not only do I have smoke alarms, I have CO2 sensors on every level of the house, battery life of 10 years I think. Bought them at Costco for around $25 each.

[J]

double check them, CO2 and CO are different and not all CO2 sensors will pick them up. The better quality ones will but a lot of the more basic CO2 sensors wont read CO.

[PJ]

Good point! Maybe I wrote that wrong?

Anyways these are what we have

http://www.costco.com/First-Alert-10-Year-Sealed-Battery-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm.product.100141076.html

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