Read this recent C O Incident Report from Seattle, WA, Weatherization Dept., and please consider seriously the questions I inserted at the end of the E-mail exchanged on this recent C O incident.  Once Again, two UL-2034 Listed C O alarms FAILED TO ALARM, ….. in this case, ….. Thank GOD, this Lady had a C O – Experts Low Level C O “Health” Monitor that “SAVED HER LIFE” ! ! !

Hi George –

I finally heard back from the woman whose CO Experts monitor was the only one that alerted her to a high CO situation. They were First Alert and Nighthawk, although she did not supply model numbers.

Thank You.

The presence of TWO DIFFERENT BRANDS, a Kidde Nighthawk and a First Alert, simply points out even more strongly, that if it is “Listed” to UL-2034, ….. IT IS NOT GOING TO FULLY PROTECT YOU, ….. REGARDLESS of the BRAND NAME  ! ! !

George

Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:41 PM

Subject: Life saved by CO monitor

Hi all – -- We got the email below from a client, who also happens to be environmentally sensitive and quite vulnerable. After weatherizing her home under the PSE Gas Weatherization Program, we had installed a “CO Experts” digital readout monitor with low-level sensitivity and alarm, per the program’s requirements. Since she already had two conventional monitors on the main floor, we installed this one upstairs. If I had any doubts about the importance of low level detection before, they are dispelled by this story.

Scott 

 Subject: Fw: request for report & thanks for CO Expert

  Scott and Bill,
I want to thank you for the CO Expert monitor.  It woke me going fullblast siren 3 a.m. Sunday night.  Since the monitors downstairs weren't registering anything and I couldn't understand the readout, I thought it might not be a real finding and opened windows upstairs and went downstairs and slept on the couch.  Planned to call Puget Sound to check out early morning but woke up with severe headache, vomiting, etc. and took me hrs to call them because I was so sick and probably not thinking clearly.  Turns out a piece of the baffle in the hot water heater had broken off and was burning and causing the carbon monoxide to shoot out at over 1,000 ppm.  Without that upstairs monitor, I probably wouldn't have associated the illness with carbon monoxide until much later, if at all. I don’t know what might have stopped the other meters from picking up a reading. After the C O – Experts sounded off, I did open the windows upstairs. Maybe that stopped the two alarms downstairs from sounding off, but I don’t know why or how. So this monitor probably saved my life!!!!!!!!  I am a believer in the low-level monitors, needless to say.
All the best,
Nelma

An accurate, reliable, C O alarm may awaken you in a FRIGHT when it sounds an Alarm at 3 a.m., but it will prevent the FUNERAL that might have been necessary,  if  YOUR C O alarm had “Remained Silent”, like the two detectors in the Report above  !

Is your C O alarm WORKING ? ….. are you  SURE ? ….. have you TESTED it lately ?  ….. will it ALARM SOON ENOUGH ? ….. at what PPM ? ….. after HOW LONG ?

YOU ARE BETTING YOUR FAMILIES LIFE ON IT  ! ! !