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Hey, do you guys know what you're supposed to do if your carbon monoxide detector goes off? I didn't, but luckily they print it on the BACK of the detector--reasoning, I guess, that once you've ripped it off the wall to stop the shrieking you'll see the directions, hah. Apparently the answer is "call the fire department"!
(I suppose it makes sense, due to CO being odorless and deadly and therefore something you can't just say "I smell nothing, it's fine" about while ripping the detector off the wall to silence it. Being a rule-abiding person, if I'm instructed by the printing on the back of an alarming device to call 911, I feel pretty much duty-bound to do it. My mom had a close call with a CO leak when she was pregnant with me and the story of that, brrr!)
Fortunately, there was no leak. I've known for years that the CO detector the developer installed in our utility room was in the wrong place, but I thought as long as we had another in the right place it wasn't hurting anything. Only I guess when they're (incorrectly) installed two feet from your furnace and dryer they build up CO exposures from normal events until one day they start false alarming. The fire guys told me don't even replace it, it shouldn't be there. Huh!
(My husband is now mortified because they sent a ladder truck, sirens going all three blocks from the station to our building. But what can you do? I told him if it makes him feel better he can pretend to the neighbors that he wasn't home at the time. :))
How was everyone's weekend? Any fun close encounters with dudes in rubber overcoats?
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(I suppose it makes sense, due to CO being odorless and deadly and therefore something you can't just say "I smell nothing, it's fine" about while ripping the detector off the wall to silence it. Being a rule-abiding person, if I'm instructed by the printing on the back of an alarming device to call 911, I feel pretty much duty-bound to do it. My mom had a close call with a CO leak when she was pregnant with me and the story of that, brrr!)
Fortunately, there was no leak. I've known for years that the CO detector the developer installed in our utility room was in the wrong place, but I thought as long as we had another in the right place it wasn't hurting anything. Only I guess when they're (incorrectly) installed two feet from your furnace and dryer they build up CO exposures from normal events until one day they start false alarming. The fire guys told me don't even replace it, it shouldn't be there. Huh!
(My husband is now mortified because they sent a ladder truck, sirens going all three blocks from the station to our building. But what can you do? I told him if it makes him feel better he can pretend to the neighbors that he wasn't home at the time. :))
How was everyone's weekend? Any fun close encounters with dudes in rubber overcoats?
This post originated on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. Comment here or there.