Alarm! Alarm!!
Sitting there, minding our own business, and suddenly an alarm goes off down the hall. It turns out that the CO levels in our house had soared to over 300 (parts per something). Not knowing what that meant, we read the info sheet on the alarm and found that over 10 is bad...300 is, uh, quite alarming.
A call to 911, visit from the fire department, and later from the gas company, and we find ourselves holed up next door at my aunt's house. The FD told me that you can go 8 hours with a level of 300 but that at 1000 you can die in three minutes.
Evidently the problem is that our boiler wasn't ventilating at all. So, all of that gas was coming straight back out into the house. Unbelievable.
More blessings...this time for an alarm that, as it turns out, saved five lives tonight. The gas man said the CO would have just kept climbing through the night as we slept.
God is good!
A call to 911, visit from the fire department, and later from the gas company, and we find ourselves holed up next door at my aunt's house. The FD told me that you can go 8 hours with a level of 300 but that at 1000 you can die in three minutes.
Evidently the problem is that our boiler wasn't ventilating at all. So, all of that gas was coming straight back out into the house. Unbelievable.
More blessings...this time for an alarm that, as it turns out, saved five lives tonight. The gas man said the CO would have just kept climbing through the night as we slept.
God is good!
posted by Michael Shattuck at
10:47 PM
1 Comments:
what a miracle!! Those alarms things are just marvelous. Glad that you guys were okay.
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