A Gas Furnace Carbon Monoxide

Poisoning dissertation

By

Forest Grauel




Greetings friends Richmond and Scott & Gerald,
As an alternative to "Lady, your heat exchanger has some holes in it and I had to "Condemn Yer Furnace" caus ifin' I didn't yore hole fam-lee kud die in thur sleep some night," this article you sent me is an excellent one to point up the REAL reason that CO poisoning occurs.

As the article states, "The furnace at the family's two-story, stone fronted house appeared to be faulty and the chimney was blocked." Note: that they didn't say what was wrong with the furnace, but the significant thing here is that "the chimney was blocked." Lots of furnaces are faulty- cracked heat exchangers, bad bearings on fan shafts, and any number of other things which can either cause malfunctions, fires from over heating or explosions from late or no furnace ignition, but a BLOCKED CHIMNEY, flue pipe come loose, or the very rare negative pressure back draft (almost unheard of in residential applications)- hardly worth mentioning, the BLOCKED CHIMNEY and SEPARATED or COLLAPSED FLUE PIPE are the two big killers, and people need to know about that and what to look for.

Anyway, I am up to my ears right now, but if one or both of you would use this article as a centerpiece for an expanded piece on "Don't Be Caught "Dead Asleep" When It Comes to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning- What Really Kills with Gas Furnaces" it would be a service to all.

I miss not seeing you both as much as I like to.  I anticipate and look forward to the time when this will all be behind me.  There are so many more rewarding and noble things which need doing.  This has been and continues to be such a diversion of energy.  In the mean time your prayers are appreciated.

Composed hastily,
Forest



Scott Meenen N3SJH wrote:
  I assumed without reading it that it was a blocked chimney.
 Scott

This is an AP bulletin about deaths caused by carbon monoxide.

Elderly Couple and Their Two Sons Found Dead in House, Faulty Furnace Suspected
The Associated Press Published: Oct 28, 2002

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) - An elderly couple and their two sons were found dead in
their home Monday, possibly from carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said.
The four may have been dead since Thursday, the day they failed to turn up at a
family event in Pennsylvania, relatives told police. The bodies were discovered
after relatives sent someone to the house to check on them.

The furnace at the family's two-story, stone-fronted house appeared to be faulty
and the chimney was blocked, Woodbridge Mayor Frank Pelzman said.

Autopsies planned Monday and Tuesday were expected to pinpoint the cause of
death.

Police declined to release the victims' names until family members could be
notified.


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