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Get Your Family Safe With a Carbon Dioxide Detector
Wed 31 Dec 2008 - 09:50
Get Your Family Safe With a Carbon Dioxide Detector
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Thomas_E_Larsen]Thomas E Larsen
More states require home gas detectors
Low-cost carbon monoxide detectors can save lives, experts say, and states are beginning to require them.
Most people are surprised to learn that carbon monoxide is the leading cause of accidental poisoning in the U.S. It takes some 2,000 lives a year and makes many times that number sick.
Though carbon-monoxide detectors are widely available, fewer than a third of homes have them. That could change as more states pass laws requiring them in homes.
Some cities are taking action on their own. Chicago and St. Louis, for example, have ordinances requiring them. The legislation has lifesaving effects. Cities that require carbon-monoxide detectors have much lower death rates from exposure to the gas than those that don't. A study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. In Chicago 0.4 percent of those exposed to the gas died. In Los Angeles, 15 percent of those exposed to carbon monoxide died.
There are many possible sources such as a furnace, kitchen stove, water heater, fireplace, generator, charcoal broiler, and anything that burns fossil fuels (gasoline, diesel fuel, wood and kerosene).
I had a friend of mine who installed an A/C unit in the summer but keep the old furmace in. Once winter came and the heat was started to be used, carbon dioxide was leaking from the unit. It seems it wasn't sized right for the new A/C unit and caused it to malfunction. Since crabon dioxide is odorless and colorless, this could have resulted in a very danagerous situation.
Protect yourself and your household. Install a carbon-monoxide detector. It probably s more important than a smoke detector, as carbon dioxide is odorless and colorless.
Tom Larsen,
Speaker, Author, Advisor
Insurance Expert http://www.nypropertyinsurance.com
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