As the weather is turning colder, making sure carbon monoxide detectors are installed and operational is very important, explains Monmouth Fire Captain Craig Cozadd:
“Wintertime, that’s when the furnaces are going and anytime you have any fuel fired operation in your home, furnaces, gas stoves, water heaters, cars idling in the garage, any of those types of things that create carbon monoxide, we want to make sure that detectors can pick up on that. It doesn’t take very long at all for it to build up in a house and you can’t smell it. Now if you smell something, it could be your furnace maybe not burning cleanly, those kinds of things, and of course we will come check out any situation, but the detectors are the key, especially in the nighttime when people are sleeping. We want to make sure that people are protected.”
Carbon monoxide detectors are to be placed outside sleeping areas, inside attached garages, on each floor of a home, and at least ten feet from the garage door leading into the home.
