Where: Our House
Time: Approximately 9:30PM
The problem?
This
And This
It started just like any other night. The kids in bed, Brandon and I watching TV. Me in my big red robe. You know the story. And then it came....
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! CARBON MONOXIDE!!!!!!!!!!!
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! CARBON MONOXIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sound was deafening. The children were screaming! I mean, it was dramatic people.
We opened every window and door and got the kids out of bed. We all huddled by the door. The low that night was 36 degrees.
The alarm eventually went off, and the kids went back to bed. We closed the doors but kept the windows open. At about 10:30PM we hear....
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! CARBON MONOXIDE!!!!!!!!!!!
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!! CARBON MONOXIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Again, the whole dramatic process. Dallin kept talking about the "firetrucks are coming".
We checked the battery, and checked for errors. Then we called the gas company. In about an hour a nice man was here with a Ghost Busters looking machine to check our home. I was grateful he was thorough - like, in our attic thorough. He figured out that when our oven starts up, dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are emitted. We still don't know why it took so long after dinner (a simmering soup on the stove, and corn bread in the oven) to trigger the alarm. But maybe our house is just too tightly closed up and the combo of the oven, stove, and candles proved too much. We'll be calling about that oven being replaced.
We got to bed at 1am. We haven't had the problem since, but every night Dallin asks "Is the fiyoh suck (fire truck) wid da Cahbun Onoxide comin?"
Um... yeah... didn't hear about this until Dad mentioned it to me a few days ago. FA-REAKY!! So who gets to replace the stove? And you don't have to pay anything right? Oh, and one more thing... maybe with a new stove/oven it won't be weird. Doesn't your current oven cook weirdly?
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