The Woodstock Fire department is promoting carbon monoxide safety this week.
WOODSTOCK - The Woodstock Fire department is promoting carbon monoxide safety this week.
They'll be promoting across multiple locations to ensure people have carbon monoxide alarms in their homes.
November 1st to 7th are the designated Carbon Monoxide Week days. The main focus of the week is to make sure families in Woodstock have working alarms and take precautions to keep their families safe. But it is also in honour of the Hawkins Family who passed away due to Carbon Monoxide entering their home. Lisa Woods Public Information Coordinator has more on the week.
"The Hawkins Family accident is one we want to make sure doesn't happen again. So we want to honour them by making sure people are protected in this community, that they loved and they lived in. And we want to make it clear that if you don't have an alarm then you don't know if there's carbon monoxide in your home."
Woods says they also want to make sure the alarms are working.
"It's a matter of maintenance. It's a matter that they do expire, we need to check the date, test them that they're working and make sure they're in the house. Another common thing that I do find when I'm out is they don't have them near the bedroom and it's imperative that you have them near the bedroom because most things happen between midnight and 6:00 am, fires and carbon monoxide leaks. So we want to know that you're going to wake up if you hear that alarm go off."
Woods adds you can not see, smell or taste carbon monoxide but it gives people flu symptoms, like a headache, and they tend to rest. She says they want to ensure people know when the alarm goes off and they're aware there is an issue in the house.
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