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Article: AS TEMPERATURES FALL, CALLS TO UTILITIES RISE ; Carbon monoxide can build up while fireplaces are burning
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- December 13, 2007
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As cold weather bore down on the region last weekend, 63 calls
poured into Colorado Springs Utilities about possible carbon
monoxide exposure or natural gas leaks.
That's more than twice as many calls as Utilities gets during a
typical December weekend, Utilities spokesman Dave Grossman said.
No one was injured, but one household was found to have a carbon
monoxide problem that could have been deadly had the family not
called for help.
Many of the calls stemmed from people using fireplaces, which can
suck air from furnace and hot-water-heating vent pipes, causing
carbon monoxide buildup, Utilities operations superintendent Greg
Smith said.
"The conditions have to be just right," he said, ...