The below article came from a local paper today. Scary when a family barely gets out with their life! It has been stated before on this blog but I will do it again.
Be Sure the Company Installing Your Furnace Knows what they are doing. This accident was due to someone taking the easy way out and exhausting the furnace thru the drier vent!!!
If it was the owner of the property shame on him for not hiring a professional. Worse yet if it was a professional they should be handled accordingly as well as never allowed to work in this industry again.
Carbon Monoxide is no laughing matter-it is colorless, odorless and tasteless. For many the go to sleep and never wake up again!!!! It is simple to address in your existing furnace if you have someone perform a proper furnace clean and check-which should include a combustion analysis and Carbon monoxide test with heat exchanger and flue inspection-not as an extra to your clean and check but included with the initial charge for the service.
Please be safe this winter-for between 80-100 dollars you can have a reputable company come and perform the above service. The Key is REPUTABLE-not the 19.95 advertisement.
Carbon monoxide leak sickens Wilkinsburg family
A Wilkinsburg family of seven was hospitalized this morning after being sickened by a carbon monoxide leak in their rented duplex.
The furnace exhaust had been poorly vented through a clothes dryer duct and the basement registered 1,000 parts per million, which can be fatal, according to Pittsburgh fire Lt. James O'Toole. The first floor registered 70 ppm.
The average level in a home without a gas stove is 0.5 to 5 ppm, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The family — five children and two parents — lived on the first floor of the building in the 1400 block of Marlboro Avenue and a woman lived on the second floor. The parents were taken to UPMC Presbyterian and the children were taken to Children's Hospital, O'Toole said. The tenant upstairs was evacuated.
Authorities are seeking the duplex's owner, he said.
The furnace exhaust had been poorly vented through a clothes dryer duct and the basement registered 1,000 parts per million, which can be fatal, according to Pittsburgh fire Lt. James O'Toole. The first floor registered 70 ppm.
The average level in a home without a gas stove is 0.5 to 5 ppm, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The family — five children and two parents — lived on the first floor of the building in the 1400 block of Marlboro Avenue and a woman lived on the second floor. The parents were taken to UPMC Presbyterian and the children were taken to Children's Hospital, O'Toole said. The tenant upstairs was evacuated.
Authorities are seeking the duplex's owner, he said.
Read more: Carbon monoxide leak sickens Wilkinsburg family - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_764115.html?_s_icmp=NetworkHeadlines#ixzz1bzFnCGv9
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