For those with furnaces...

[kellan_the_tabby]

If you've got a furnace in your house, and you haven't got a carbon monoxide detector installed, go and buy one and put it up.

Right Now.

Over the last week, two families I dearly love have come thisclose: --><-- to dying because of furnace issues. giselle0002's detector went off last week, and they turned off the furnace before things got bad; Sarah and Juergen and Becky don't have a detector, and they spent Sunday at the hospital. They're home now and everyone is fine...but it was a close thing.

So...I now have a carbon monoxide detector. It has fresh batteries and is up in my basement, near the furnace.

The rest of you, go and do the same thing. Not this weekend, not tomorrow.

Right Now.

Comments

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we heard about that. :( Glad they are all OK!

[ku-she.livejournal.com]

I'm thankful too. A world without Gisela or Sarah/Juergen/Becky would be a very bleak one indeed.

[giselle0002.livejournal.com]

Good advice, hon . . . Trust me on this one, we've had that thing for ten years and I've never heard it go off. Not once.

I've never been more happy to own a thing in my life. I lay awake now or wake up in the middle of the night and have to go check on the most important people in the world . . . the fleeting images of their bodies cold and blue that work into my subconscious before I POUND 'em back into the dark closets of my brain are enough to make my heart run jack-hammer and bring tears to my eyes.

CO detectors are as important as smoke detectors . . . do what she says.

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

Hrm... smoke detectors. Those could be useful ^_^

(Yes, yes... I'll try to stop at the store when I'm out there on Thurs.)

[montuos]

Makes me glad for the first time that we have to keep the window in our utility room open all year round for air circulation. (Otherwise the pilot for the water heater goes out -- really unpleasant to discover that at 5:30am on a frosty January morning.)