Lakeville Area Public Schools — Transcript
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Carbon Monoxide Safety and Prevention
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Lakeville Fire Safety Minute: Carbon Monoxide Awareness
Presentation covered carbon monoxide as an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas produced by incomplete combustion from gas appliances, wood stoves, and automobiles. Minnesota statistics show approximately 300 annual ER visits for carbon monoxide poisoning with 14 fatalities. Early symptoms include headache, dizziness, light-headedness, and nausea. Legal requirements mandate detectors on sleeping floors and within 10 feet of sleeping areas. Emergency protocol requires evacuation, calling 911, and utility company contact. Detectors require replacement every 5-7 years with UL-listed units available in hardwired, battery, or plug-in formats.
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carbon monoxide is a odorless tasteless smelless gas that can be poisonous as it replaces oxygen in the body it's created in the home by incomplete combustion of fuel
in the state of Minnesota annually about 300 people are sent to the ER with uh emerging signs of carbon monoxide poisoning and of those about 14 unfortunately pass away
in the state of Minnesota it's required by law to have a carbon monoxide detector on any floor where sleeping rooms are and within 10 ft of any sleeping areas if you do have appliances in the room that burn fuel for heating or otherwise it's required to have one in the room
when your carbon monoxide alarms do go off in the house it's important to get everybody out and accounted for and then call 911 uh the fire department will respond and work with you to help identify if there is presence of carbon monoxide in the house and then contact your utility company
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Public health resource referenced for additional information on carbon monoxide safety
State legal requirement mandating carbon monoxide detectors on floors with sleeping rooms and within 10 feet of sleeping areas; also required in rooms with fuel-burning appliances