CO near miss

Wearb

Two elderly women had a near miss in Cork.
I always ask people if they have one when filling in service report and encourage people to get one. Most people will be lighting some sort if fire over Christmas.

scudo2

I think it was actually a cooker at fault.
Very good and quick of the neighbours, just to show how close to death it was, the two, thankfully quick acting guards were also affected by the co and also needed treatment.
I wonder was it an old cooker or one of the 2 thousand + defective cooker that are still out there after a nationwide recall.
How many boiler service/plumber still check, even if there not asked about cooker ?
I've found one.

+ my sister in Dublin also had a close call with one of the faulty ones, but luckley she had an alarm.

Billy Bunting

scudo2 wrote: »

I think it was actually a cooker at fault.
Very good and quick of the neighbours, just to show how close to death it was, the two, thankfully quick acting guards were also affected by the co and also needed treatment.
I wonder was it an old cooker or one of the 2 thousand + defective cooker that are still out there after a nationwide recall.
How many boiler service/plumber still check, even if there not asked about cooker ?
I've found one.

+ my sister in Dublin also had a close call with one of the faulty ones, but luckley she had an alarm.

Sounds like a very similar case in Donegal in 2011, 2 elderly friends died on that occasion and the cooker manufacturers issued a product recall, to this day there are thought to be still over 1000 of these time bombs out their.

CO ALARMS SAVE LIVES, what a great stocking filler.

anthonyos

Are they the beko cookers

scudo2

Faulty Cooker List and serial numbers:

Maybe this should also be a sticky, even if it only saves one life.
RGII should be constantly sending out this list and a reminder.

DGOBS

DGOBS

If you guys want a CO sticky, I will, but start the thread with generic CO advice and links, so anyone accessing will see the safety data first, then you can add this stuff. If you post it I will sticky it. T

(Scudo, just reposted for you so people could see without downloading the link)

scudo2

DGOBS wrote: »

If you guys want a CO sticky, I will, but start the thread with generic CO advice and links, so anyone accessing will see the safety data first, then you can add this stuff. If you post it I will sticky it. T

(Scudo, just reposted for you so people could see without downloading the link)

Maybe a sticky with all the facts and the cooker warning etc. But not something we can post on, but can only be updated by a Mod, rather than it getting into a big long Q&A tread.
If it was short, to the point and informative I personal think that would work better and all of it hopefully would be read by the public.
ie.
" Carbon Monoxide, Information, Warnings and Facts"

Billy Bunting

Or we could do that and have the original "Carbon monoxide awareness week" topic reinstated, it is there on a search and full of info, was never sure why it wad unstickied

scudo2

Dangerious carbon monoxide producingDangerous cooker recall 2.jpg

Dangerous cooker recall 1.jpgDangerous cooker recall 2.jpg faulty cooker list

Wearb

Well done on the sticky DGOBS

Dtp1979

If I may add, put the heading in capital letters so it may catch somebody's eye.

DGOBS

Dec it's at the top of the list so that should suffice

Someone asked to make it a closed thread, I feel it should be left open for all to contribute and allow/encourage any concerns or questions from the public

Wearb

DGOBS wrote: »

Dec it's at the top of the list so that should suffice

Someone asked to make it a closed thread, I feel it should be left open for all to contribute and allow/encourage any concerns or questions from the public

Perhaps a note at the top to advise the posting of any issues or advice in the P&H forum and then relevant points can be added to the sticky.

Just a suggestion.
Even though I can see the benefits of it being kept closed, I don't feel strongly about it being open or closed either way. Leaning slightly towards closed.