How To Avoid Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

How can I avoid carbon monoxide poisoning?

One of the main sources of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning can also be during a storm, a power outage. You can have a backup generator, and people often do the wrong thing with backup generators during a power outage. Because they're stressed out, it's a crisis situation, they may not handle this equipment the right way. And the fumes from the generator, which is running off of gasoline, sometimes back up into homes. People may use them on an attached porch or in a garage. And the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, as a matter of fact, one of the leading causes of death from Hurricane Katrina was Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from all the generator use. So, it's very important to keep in mind during storms, power outages, Carbon Monoxide risks from generators. That's one preventive. Another is that if you have a car running in a garage, you always want to have the door open. You don't ever want to run a car in a garage with the garage door closed. Better yet, don't warm up the car in the garage. Pull it out on the street and warm it up out there. That's even safer still. And you want to make sure you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home. Regardless of any of the other issues, you want to make sure that whatever the source of Carbon Monoxide may be that you are testing for it. Every home - we all now understand that every home should have a smoke alarm. The same thing with Carbon Monoxide.