This is not directly related to roofing but seemed like the type of thing we should be reminding people about with winter coming on. Get your furnace checked out now and avoid what happened to these people.
Carbon Monoxide and Your Furnace
“Three family members were taken to a hospital Thursday morning after becoming ill inhaling carbon monoxide. … AFD officials inspected the house and are blaming the carbon monoxide leak on an improper modification to the furnace.” – Albuquerque – Carbon Monoxide sends three to hospital 10/27/2005
“Amy and Chuck Meiburg thought their family had a brutal case of the flu last winter. Amy woke up with a severe headache, her two children were sick and Chuck was lightheaded. … When the rural Rock Rapids, Iowa, family called a nurse hot line, the message was clear: Get out of the house. “She said if we didn’t have fevers, it could be carbon monoxide poisoning.”
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