Housewarming CO warning

28.01.06, 12:56
Dear Fellow Foreigners Living in Poland,

There have ben reports of people this winter trying to keep warm by keeping
their gas boilers working overnight while they slept, and unknowingly to them
the ventilator thatnormally safely disposes of the carbon monoxide has frozen
over, with the tragic result that they go to sleep in the night a happy
family, little knowing that they will wake up dead the next morning.

This is the third main cause of winter related death this winter, after
homelessness and drunkenness in the open, and is responsible more more deaths
than people slipping and falling because of the weather and also outstrips
the toll of traffic realted deaths increased due to weather conditions.

Our group is at risk since those who are not fluent in Polish may not be
aware that some Polish flats have this potential problem. If you have a gas
boiler in your flat or house and are not sure about the ventilation, the best
thing is to buy an alarm which measures the air and lets off a siren if the
CO or CO2 is too high or the oxygen content falls.

It is a small once off investment that might save your life.
    • missus.c Re: Housewarming CO warning 28.01.06, 13:06
      Thanks Davey. I am sure this is a good piece of advice, not just for
      foreigners. It is enough to have a window open just a little, but I guess that
      when it is -20 it is useless.

      I can only speak from experience, what a terrible loss it is, to find someone,
      who has tragically passed away, beacuse someone else didn't do their job and
      check the ventilation or the gas boiler.

      She was young.
      She was talented.
      She went to have a bath.
      And she never woke up.
      2 days before Xmas.

      Look out for yourselves and eachother.
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