The Woodstock Fire Department is visiting homes and reminding everyone about the importance of carbon monoxide alarms
WOODSTOCK - It's Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week and the Woodstock Fire Department is reminding everyone to get your CO detectors installed.
The law states CO detectors need to be near sleeping areas so you can hear the alarm go off when you're sleeping. Public Information Coordinator Lisa Woods tells Heart FM the fire department is delivering pizzas this week and making sure people have working CO detectors.
"We are out doing the pizza delivery thing again like we did during fire prevention week. The first house got a free pizza and the second house we actually gave away two combination smoke and CO alarms because they were not up to code." If the house isn't up to code, the Fire Department will provide them with the equipment they need to be safe.
Woods says Carbon Monoxide is the silent killer as it is odourless, tasteless and the only way to protect yourself and your family is to have the detectors installed. She adds if you hear the CO alarm go off you should get out of the house immediately and not open the windows.
"Get outside, call 9-1-1, leave the doors closed and the windows shut, allow the CO to build up and we will come in with our air packs on and be able to determine where the problem is. If you open the windows and allow the CO to get out we just have to close them, wait for it to build up again and determine is it your furnace, is it your water heater, is it a dryer."

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